Enbridge Sarnia Solar Farm

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