Italian supplier of solar energy production equipment Ecoprogretti has installed a fully automatic production line for solar panels Oman.
The facility is located in Salalah, the capital of Oman’s southern Dhofar province, and has a nominal capacity of 400 MW. It was delivered to local customer American Advanced Clean Energy (AACE) and was designed and built entirely in Italy.
The production line integrates the most advanced technologies for assembling tunnel oxide passivated contacts (TOPCon) and heterojunction (HJT) modules, according to a statement from Ecoprogretti, and features full automation covering every stage of the module manufacturing process.
AACE is a module manufacturer headquartered in the US and manufacturing facilities in Oman. The country’s free trade agreement with the US provides the company with preferential access to export its Omani-made modules to the US market.
Salalah’s production line follows Ecoprogretti’s installation of one similar line in SoharNorthern Oman. The Italian company says that with both factories fully operational, it controls the majority of Omani’s market share in solar panel production.
Ecoprogretti also claims that it has the largest number of PV module production lines in the wider Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) area, with other production facilities in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain accounting for more than 50% market share in the GCC.
In May this year, Ecoprogetti released a fully automated recycling line for solar panels.
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