Enbridge Sarnia Solar Farm, Southwestern Ontario, Canada

Project description

• Construction of a 380 square hectares photovoltaic facility by Enbridge and First Solar in Sarnia, Southwestern Ontario, Canada
• 330,000 solar panels, 80 MW of output supplying 12,800 homes through 150 km of cables

Customer challenges

• Canada’s largest solar farm
• Canadian cable was specified, resistant to harsh climate conditions
• Extremely tight time constraint: 2-month delivery deadline requested
• Turnkey contract

Nexans solutions KEYLIOS™ range including medium-voltage cables and RWU building wire cables, resistant to sunlight and low temperatures For several weeks, Nexans dedicated most of its production capacity to this project in order to produce and deliver the long-length reels of cable on time Through constant communications, Nexans and its distributor-partner successfully met the delivery schedules to satisfy customer requirements