Swinerton Renewable Energy leads Wiki-Solar’s global raking of utility-scale solar EPC contractors

U.S., European and Indian companies continue to dominate the list of top utility-scale solar EPC contractors according to new data released this month by Wiki-Solar, a leading source of information about the global deployment of solar photovoltaic power stations.

California-based EPC company Swinerton Renewable Energy has climbed to the top of the table surpassing U.S. solar modules manufacturer First Solar as it has exited its EPC business.

German EPC contractors Belectric, Enerparc and juwi have been in the top ten for years and are now joined by Spain’s ACS Cobra, which has shot up the list as it is building a 850 MWp solar PV project in Spain. Other European climbers include Scatec from Norway, Greece’s Biosar and Metka-EGN, BayWa re from Germany, British RES Group and Spain’s Gransolar.

India retains four companies in the top 12 which are Sterling & Wilson, Mahindra, ACME solar and  Larsen & Toubro.

Wiki-Solar’s list of top utility-scale solar EPC contractors citing figures in Q3-2020

		Cumulative to date		Change since end 2018
Rank	EPC contractor	Plants	GWac	Plants	GWac	Rank
1	Swinerton Renewable Energy [US]	118	5.008	12	1.332	2
2	First Solar [US]	58	4.461	4	0.554	7
3	Sterling & Wilson [IN] (part of SP Group)	62	2.810	7	1.391	1
4	Belectric [DE] (now part of Innogy)	144	2.306	15	0.481	12
5	Mahindra [IN]	40	2.234	3	0.762	5
6	Enerparc [DE]	237	1.917	44	0.334	21
7	juwi AG [DE] inc. JSI Construction	126	1.899	11	0.384	18
8	ACME solar [IN]	47	1.804	6	0.105
9	ACS Group [ES] inc. Maetel and others	26	1.791	5	0.804	4
10	Abengoa Solar [ES] inc. Abener Energía, Teyma	30	1.679
11	Mortenson Construction [US]	18	1.600	2	0.343	20
12	Larsen & Toubro [IN]	47	1.561	7	0.469	13
13	Biosolar Energy [GR]	48	1.393	8	0.488	11
14	Cypress Creek Renewables [US]	80	1.340	9	0.260	23
15	Acciona Energía [ES]	23	1.330	7	0.553	8
16	Scatec Solar [NO]	27	1.171	9	0.813	3
17	Eiffage [FR]	11	1.156	2	0.588	6
18	SunEdison [US] (in insolvency)	48	1.101
19	BayWa r.e. [DE]	72	1.074	23	0.526	9
20	McCarthy Buildings [US]	41	1.068	5	0.279	22
21	TSK Group [ES]	15	1.030	3	0.429	14
22	Egnatia Energy [GR] inc. Metka Energy	68	1.021	7	0.508	10
23	Canadian Solar [CA]	29	0.993	5	0.255	24
24	Signal Energy [US]	8	0.869	3	0.392	17
25	RES Group [GB]	18	0.850	4	0.412	15
26	Datong Goutou [CN]	1	0.820		0.410	16
27	Elecnor [ES]	32	0.809	1	0.004
28	RCR Tomlinson [AU]	8	0.769	2	0.241	25
29	Bechtel [US]	3	0.753
30	Gransolar [ES]	12	0.705	2	0.350	19
© Wiki-Solar
Wiki-Solar’s database holds EPC contractors for 35,5% of active plants (19,3% by these 30 listed companies) so some participants may not be shown and for others figures may be understated by the factor of 3 on average.

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Source: Press release by Wiki-Solar. Photo credit: © Swinerton Renewable Energy.