Thailand: Blue Solar establishes 5MW power plant in Samut Sakhon

Thailand: Blue Solar establishes 5MW power plant in Samut Sakhon

Blue Solar Co has announced the completion of a new 5-megawatt solar-power
plant in Samut Sakhon province, and says it is now supporting the
development of more than a dozen solar farms in Thailand.

This new project is one of the two solar-farm projects that Blue Solar
recently won under the Agricultural Cooperatives and Governmental Agency
Programme initiated by the Energy Regulatory Commission. Under the
programme, the solar farms will be built on land provided by the government
and agricultural cooperatives with an installed capacity of 5MW or less.

"We believe that the solar-power market in Thailand will continue to grow at
a reasonable rate," said Blue Solar managing director Visait Hansaward.

The company says it has been able to utilise the expertise and experience of
its partner Conergy to develop an efficient and cost-effective solar project
in Thailand and the region.

Christian Kaesler, Conergy's managing director for Thailand, said the
Germany company had been active in Thailand for almost a decade, delivering
optimised and cost-effective commercial solar solutions that respond to the
local market's requirements.

Conergy's president for Asia and Pacific, Alexander Lenz, added that the
company "looks forward to serving our Thai customers' needs well into the
future as demand for clean energy continues to grow".

The 5MW plant in Samut Sakhon is located on a 90,865-square-metre property
and is equipped with 15,860 315-watt modules, Sigma II mounting systems, and
eight central inverters. This ground-mounted installation project is
currently generating 7,442 megawatt-hours of clean electricity per year and
saves approximately 4,600 tonnes of carbon-dioxide emissions.

Thailand's renewable-energy market is the most established in Southeast
Asia. With the new targets set by the National Energy Policy Council,
Thailand aims to triple its installed solar photovoltaic capacity of 2,021MW
in 2015 to 6,000MW by 2036.

Conergy has built more than 132MW of solar electricity capacity across
Thailand in key locations such as Ayutthaya, Lop Buri, Suphan Buri and
Kanchanaburi, and has executed solar plants in partnership with Thai
companies such as B Grimm , Symbior, CK Power, Siam Solar Energy 1, Yanhee
Solar and Ratchaburi Electricity.

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John Diecker
APT Consulting Group Co., Ltd.

www.aptthailand.com