$12.5 Million Solar Farm Announced

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Construction on a $12.5 million solar farm in Svay Rieng province will begin in the next few days, and will feed 10 megawatts (MW) a day into the national grid, officials announced yesterday. The 10-hectare site in Bavet City will be built and operated by Sunseap Asset (Cambodia), the local subsidiary of Singapore-based Sunseap International, and marks the first such facility in Cambodia. It will be an important contributor to easing Cambodia’s reliance on imported electricity, explained Sunseap International’s chairman Frank Phuan at a press conference yesterday.   
 

“Cambodia is very important country with large solar resources,” Mr. Phuan said. “I think the common problem of the lack of power occurs during the dry season, as most of Cambodia’s power comes from hydro-electricity. So, a 10MW solar farm will improve power in the area,” he said.
 

Mr. Phuan said that Cambodia was blessed with large “solar resources,” or sunshine. “We think the solar project will be a big benefit here.” Sunseap Asset (Cambodia) won the bid to build and run the facility by agreeing to sell the electricity produced to Cambodia’s Electricity Authority (EDC) for 9.1 cents per kilowatt hour. The facility has a 20-year operational expectancy.

 

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