The Faleata Racecourse Solar array has saved Samoa $1.6million.
Built in 2014 as a collaborative effort between the Governments of Samoa and New Zealand, it has generated around 2,586,107 kWh. This equates to an off set of about 615,739.59 litres of diesel fuel.
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Money that the Samoan Government would otherwise have spent on the diesel has been able to be put towards other worthwhile causes.
When opened by Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi during the S.I.D.S conference, it was said that the array was the biggest and the best.
Now this has been independently recognised in the S.E.A.N.Z awards.
Reid Technology NZ Ltd. who built the array have won two awards at the Sustainable Electricity Association of New Zealand annual awards night.
The first award was for the largest Solar PV installation outside of New Zealand, and the second was for the best installation in terms of quality design and quality of completion.
The project is one of three grid-connected solar arrays built with a combined generation capability of 2.58 MW at a cost of NZ $7.5m.
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