Chinese firm Sungrow said this week it will supply its inverter slider technology and 1+X modular inverter solution for the 2.2GW solar power plant NGHC is building in Oxagon. The site is located in the port area, close to the highly modern Neom City project.

Once completed, the solar farm will be the largest photovoltaic array in the Middle East. It will power NGHC's $8.7 billion green hydrogen plant in Oxagon.

"By the end of 2026, NGHC will be producing up to 600 tonnes of non-hydrogen per day using entirely renewable energy sources such as wind and solar," said Sungrow.

The Chinese inverter supplier noted that it has also agreed to provide 400 MWh of energy storage and 536 MW/600 MWh of DC capacity for the project's engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor, India's Larsen & Toubro.

"The solution innovatively combines the benefits of a central inverter and a series inverter, taking a 1.1MW module as a single component unit and expanding the maximum capacity to 8.8MW by combining eight component units together." Sungrow said of the inverter at the 2.2GW plant, "Thanks to the optimal IP65 high protection, the solution is able to adapt to dusty, dry and windy environments. At the same time, the inverter solution also uses intelligent forced air cooling technology to operate stably at extremely high temperatures." NGHC is a joint venture owned equally by Saudi energy giant ACWA Power, US hydrogen company Air Products and Neom, a wholly owned subsidiary of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund. It is providing non-recourse financing for Oxagon's hydrogen project through 23 regional financial institutions.

In May, NGHC said it had secured a 30-year exclusive offtake agreement to acquire all of its green ammonia production. In January this year, the project received an industrial operating license from the Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources of Saudi Arabia. Editor/Xu Shengpeng