Perovo Solar Park

The Perovo Solar Park is a 100 MWp photovoltaic power station located at Perovo, Simferopol Raion, Crimea, Ukraine. As of July 2012 it was the world's fourth-largest solar farm, and was made up of 440,000 solar panels. It is owned by Activ Solar, and the final 20 MW stage was completed on December 29, 2011.

Perovo Solar Park
CountryDisputed:
LocationPerovo, Crimea, Ukraine
Coordinates44°54′N 33°56′E
StatusOperational
Solar farm
TypeFlat-panel PV
Site area200 ha (494 acres) 200 ha (2 km2)
Power generation
Units operational440,000
Nameplate capacity100 MW
Annual net output132.5 GWh[1]

In 2009, Ukraine established a feed-in tariff of €0.46 per kilowatt hour until 2030, one of the highest.[2]

As of January 2012, the Perovo Solar Park was the most powerful solar power plant in the world, with 100 MW capacity. At that time, it was followed by the Canadian Sunny Power Plant "Sarnia" at 97 MW, the Italian Montalto Di O at 84.2 MW, and the German Finsterwalde at 80.7 MW.

The park consists of 440,000 crystalline solar photovoltaic modules, connected by 1,500 km of cable and installed on more than 200 hectares of area (covers approximately 259 football fields).

The station allows reduction of carbon emissions by 105 thousand tons per year.

Electricity produced by this plant was sufficient to meet the needs of the city of Simferopol in 2012. The total capacity of all solar power plants in the territory of the Crimea: "Perova", "Ohcastrotnikov", "Mitaine" and "Rodnikov", was 227.26 MW, which was more than 15 percent of the total energy needs of all Crimea, which was 1200 MW at that time.

The new power station surpassed the five previous world largest photovoltaic parks. Another Activ Solar Project in Crimea - 82,65-Megawant "Okhotnikovo", installed by Developer also in 2012 in the Saksky district of the peninsula. Park Okhotnyk was, at one time, the most powerful in Central and Eastern Europe.

Park Perova was built in record time, in seven months. The power plants used solar panels of Asian manufacturers and inverters of European companies.

Occupation

Before the occupation, the substation was integrated into the grid power distribution system of Ukraine. After occupation, the station was isolated into a single energy system of Russia, supplying energy only to the Crimean Peninsula.

This plant, like a number of other Activ Solar projects, received loans from a group of banks that hoped to make a profit from investment through a special "green tariff" that was established by the Ukrainian Government. However, due to cheap electricity from Russia and lack of current subsidy, the stations are unprofitable. Now, only part of their power is used. Their strategic fate is not clear. The plant tried to get a green tariff in the Russian Federation.[3][4]

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