422 Megawatt Floating Solar Portfolio for Philippines
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Floating solar PV is all the rage. Who doesn’t love solar power? Who doesn’t love floating stuff? For whatever reason, it’s just a fun concept — solar panels floating above the water, collecting sunlight and turning it into electricity, sounds like something too fun to be realistic. The good news is this has turned out to be a highly effective and efficient way of creating clean electricity. And it keeps growing.
Eleven months ago, Raymond Tribdino wrote about the first floating solar farm in the Philippines providing the blueprint for more of the same. That floating solar power plant had 4.99 megawatts (MW) of power capacity. Well, we didn’t even need a year to see that come about.
We now have news that Vietnamese solar developer VinEnergo is partnering with solar engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company SunAsia Energy to develop 422 MWp of floating solar power in the Philippines. This is VinEnergo’s first entry into the Filipino market.
In total, the floating solar PV power plants they develop will include almost 700,000 solar modules. There will also be 62 km of new transmission lines built to support the floating solar power plants.
The 422 MWp are spread across three projects — a 181 MWp project in Macabebe, a 126 MWp project in Sagay, and a 115 MWp project in Silay.
The solar modules will be “mounted on pile-supported structures above water, allowing aquaculture activities to continue beneath the arrays,” PV Tech shares.
“This partnership is driven by the shared commitment of SunAsia Energy and VinEnergo to strengthen energy security, support economic growth, improve people’s lives, and help protect the planet,” Tetchi Capellan, CEO of SunAsia Energy, notes. “Through the Floating Solar model, we are not only developing renewable energy infrastructure but also creating a framework where food production and clean energy generation can thrive together.”
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