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SOLAR
Sembcorp to install 8.2MW
of solar for Singapore
Airlines
Singapore-based energy group Sembcorp Industries has announced a deal to install rooftop solar systems with a total capacity of 8.2MWp for Singapore Airlines and its subsidiary SIA Engineering Company.
As part of the deal, Sembcorp Solar will construct, own and operate more than 20,000 solar panels at Singapore Airlines’ Airline House, SIA Training Centre, TechSQ, five of SIA Engineering’s hangars and its engine test facility.
Once operational, which is expected to take place in June, the rooftop arrays will generate more than 10.2 GWh of power a year in total. This represents the biggest solar power project for the aviation industry in the country, according to the statement.
Singapore Airlines and SIA Engineering will buy the electricity produced by the facilities under power purchase agreements (PPA), with the excess power generated by the systems to be fed into the grids of Singapore and Changi Airport Group.
The project is part of the Singapore Airlines group’s efforts to lower its carbon footprint.
HYDROGEN
Asian hydrogen association launched
A group of renewables executives has formed the Asia-Pacific Hydrogen Association, in a bid to take a leading regional role in the fast- emerging synergies between the sector and the energy transition.
The new body said its mission “is to establish and promote the use of hydrogen
in regional economies’ power [sectors] as a solution to the region’s rapidly growing energy demand and environmental challenges”.
The Asia-Pacific Hydrogen Association’s founders include Edgare Kerkwijk, CEO of the Asia Wind Energy Association, and Andrew Bedford, director of KBR Consulting, which
is advising regional governments on hydrogen strategy, sits on its board.
Recharge has reported extensively on
how hydrogen has rocketed up the agenda
of the global energy sector over the last year, as its potentially pivotal role in storing and transporting the output of low-carbon energy
sources becomes ever clearer.
The new association said it activities will
include arranging a conference that it’s billing as a regional first on the topic alongside the Singapore International Energy Week in October 2020.
WIND
Marubeni to launch Japan’s
first large-scale offshore
wind power business
Marubeni Corp. is gearing up to launch what it says will be Japan’s first large-scale offshore wind power generation business.
Tokyo-based Akita Offshore Wind Corp., an equity-method affiliate of the trading house, will set up 33 wind power generators at port facilities in the cities of Akita and Noshiro in Akita Prefecture. Marubeni hopes to start operating them by the end of 2022.
The power generators will have a total output of 140,000 kilowatts, enough to serve the needs of around 47,000 households using an average of 3 kW.
Marubeni plans to sell electricity generated by the project to Tohoku Electric Power Co. for 20 years.
The project’s operating expenses will total some ¥100 billion, with the main financing coming from MUFG Bank, Mizuho Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., according to a Marubeni announcement on Monday.
The Akita Prefectural Government chose Marubeni to lead the project in 2015.
The trading house has an equity stake of some 40 percent in Akita Offshore Wind, which was established in 2016. Obayashi
Corp., Kansai Electric Power Co. and Chubu Electric Power Co. also have stakes.
Most wind power generation projects in Japan have so far been conducted on a trial basis or on a small scale.
BIOMASS
Doosan Skoda Power to
supply 75MW turbine for
Japanese biomass project
Doosan Skoda Power, part of South Korea’s Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co Ltd (KRX:034020), has won a contract to provide a 75MW steam turbine for a biomass project in Japan.
The biomass project will be located in the city of Sodegaura in Chiba Prefecture. The general contractor for the project is local engineering company Chiyoda Corporation and the owner of the biomass plant is Japanese gas company Osaka Gas.
The Doosan Skoda Power 75MW DST-S10 turbine will be manufactured at the company’s facility in Pilsen, the Czech Republic, and is expected to start commercial operation in 2022.
The project, which represents Doosan Skoda Power’s first contract in Japan, is set to benefit from Japan’s programme to supports renewable power projects by allowing them to sell the electricity they produce at higher prices.
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