Cleantech Solar completes installment of roof solar arrays at Cargill sites in Thailand

Dec 21, 2020 05:47 PM ET
  • Cleantech Solar has revealed the conclusion of four roof solar PV systems at Cargill sites across Thailand under long-lasting arrangements where Cleantech Solar has actually moneyed, built, as well as will operate as well as keep the systems.
Cleantech Solar completes installment of roof solar arrays at Cargill sites in Thailand
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The solar energy plants have a combined generating capacity of 2.4 MW and lie in various places in Lopburi, Korat and also Phetchaburi.

The four running websites are expected to produce over 3,000 MWh of clean electrical energy in a year which is equivalent to decreasing 1,750 tonnes of CO2, standing for noticeable efforts by Cargill to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its operations around the world.

Southeast Asia's development in electricity need has actually been among the fastest in the world as well as there is substantial potential for the fostering of renewable resource in the region. To meet the rising power need with budget friendly, dependable as well as sustainable resources, Thailand has actually set a target to enhance the use of renewables to 30 percent of the country's overall power consumption by 2036. The new sites will add to Cleantech Solar's portfolio of operating solar power plants in Thailand, which have actually since produced over 35 GWh of tidy electricity, sufficient to power 17,500 Thai houses annually.

Cargill's move to embrace solar in Thailand remains in line with its science-based international dedication to decrease Scope 1 as well as 2 greenhouse emissions by 10 percent by 2025, measured versus a 2017 baseline.

" Cargill supports global actions to minimize environment change by continuously pursuing emission-reducing modern technologies to minimise carbon footprint" claimed Watcharapon Prasopkiatpoka, Cargill's Country Representative for Thailand. "Cleantech Solar has actually verified its capabilities in its field to power its customer's operations with full turnkey sustainable and also reliable solar remedies. We are pleased with the task's success and also its payments to Cargill's international sustainability targets."

Raju Shukla, Cleantech Solar Founder as well as Executive Chairman, included that in addition to the advantages to Cargill's procedures and the atmosphere, they will certainly also supply economic benefits in the form of cheaper-than-grid power.


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