Philadelphia Solar has secured an order to supply 380 MW DC of its bifacial solar modules, to be produced at the Jordan headquartered company's planned 1.2 GW US fab, to Clean Energy Holdings (CEH) to power 'one of the largest' solar+electrolyzer projects in the US to date.
CEH is building a 250 MW AC solar PV plant close to the town of Sylvester in Texas on about 1,000 acres of desert land. It may expand the PV project to 1 GW AC in the future. Power generated will help the company electrify its Clear Fork Project to produce 33,000 kg/day liquified green hydrogen.
Philadelphia Solar says it will deliver its 540W Phenex half-cell 10BB solar PV bifacial modules for this order that its joint venture (JV) with Translucent Solar will produce at the 1.2 GW mono-PERC fab it announced in November 2022. The fab is scheduled to enter commercial operations by Q4/2024 (see US-Jordan Joint Venture For 1.2 GW US Manufacturing).
"The incentives provided in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 are already accelerating the transition to a sustainable energy mix as well as creating well paid permanent jobs for skilled US workers as panel manufacturing is re-shored to the US," said Philadelphia Solar USA's COO Mohammad Shehadeh.
The Jordanian company also operates a 600 MW module facility internationally which fits into CEH's scheme of things as its CEO Nicholas Bair explained, "All CEH OEM platform alliance companies have the capability to manufacture key aspects of our projects in the USA, and when we choose to go outside of North America, they also have global manufacturing and supply."