Trina Solar Signs Contract with Teralight to Supply 150 MW Solar modules and Trackers in Israel

Trina Solar has signed a contract with Israeli developer Teralight to provide 150MW worth of solar modules and trackers, the largest such deal in Israel.

The modules and trackers are for a solar farm, known as the Ta'anakh project, that Teralight is developing in northern Israel's Jezreel Valley. The Ta'anakh project, once completed by 30 June 2024, will be 250MW. The 150MW deal with Trina Solar is the project's first-phase.

The solar modules Trina Solar is supplying, for the 150MW installed capacity, are 645-665W Vertex DEG21C.20 bifacial modules. Trina Solar will supply approximately 230,000 of these modules.

The tracker being supplied will be the TrinaTracker multi drive 2P Vanguard tracker. This project will be one of the first in the world to receive this uniquely integrated solution of large form factor Trina bifacial modules and intelligent single axis 2P tracker.

"Israel is a country renowned for being an early adopter of new technology," says Li Na, Trina Solar general manager for Israel, Japan and Korea. "Vertex bifacial modules coupled with the TrinaTracker second generation 2P Vanguard tracker, is the latest technology available for utility-scale solar projects," she says. "This technology delivers significantly lower balance of system (BOS) cost and a lower levelized cost of energy (LCOE). Furthermore, the high ground clearance and wide row to row distances possible with our Vanguard 2P tracker unlocks the possibility of co location of our solar trackers with agriculture, which we find is becoming increasingly important in markets which do not have muan abundance of freely available land like Israel".

Vertex DEG21C.20 bifacial modules have double-glass, a feature that is ideal for places like northern Israel that are known to be very hot, but also sometimes very humid. Double-glass enables the module to withstand such harsh conditions.

The Vertex range of modules, including the DEG21C.20 bifacial module, is at the forefront of solar module technology. The module incorporates several market-leading and innovative technologies.

The module delivers high power but within a low voltage design, so there can be more modules per inverter string, significantly reducing the project's balance of system (BOS) cost.