Overview

• Name: Waterloo solar park
• Client: Regional Municipality of Waterloo
• Contract Value: CA$ 8.5 million
• Contract Type: EPC
• Sector: Power & Energy
• Timeline: Oct – 2005 – July- 2006
• Location: Waterloo, Ontario

Description:

This 40-acre Waterloo solar park is constructed on a sloped and rocky site, which created many unique challenges. There were approximately 48,000 panels installed on this project supported by 1350 racking structures and 5400 helical piles.

This project has a nameplate capacity of 9 MW AC or 14.75 MW DC connecting to Canadian Solar’s distribution grid at 44kV. With that said, a 44kV substation was constructed to facilitate the required protections and controls of the facility and to meet the IESO, and Canadian Solar requirements for a generation facility.

Falex through careful management of the procurement and construction process were able to reach the Commercial Operations Date (COD) milestone for the Client 20 days ahead of schedule.
Falex was responsible for engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning for this project.