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to truly scale this solution,” said Kruijf. It is expected that these rooftop panels producer in Malaysia, we are pleased to
The Dutch bank in its latest publication could total 100MW of solar capacity when reach this important milestone for our fourth
had called Husk Power as ‘the energy fully completed in 2022. project in the country. We expect that the
disruptors looking to move the needle’ on Urvi Parekh, Head of Renewable Energy government will maintain the same level of
energy poverty in rural Africa and Asia. at Facebook, commented: “As part of our ambition for the renewable energy sector
goal to support 100% of our operations with as before, and Malaysia continues to be a
renewable energy, we want to help drive the prioritised market for Scatec Solar”, says
energy transition and increase access to wind Raymond Carlsen, CEO of Scatec Solar.
SOL AR and solar power around the world.” The project has been realised in a
Lawrence Wu, President and Executive consortium with Fumase (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd,
Facebook comes closer to Director, Sunseap Group, said: “We believe a US- and Malaysia-based asset management
VPPA is the way to go for enterprises as they
and development company focused on
100% renewables target accelerate efforts to add renewables to their renewable energy in Southeast Asia. The
project was awarded in March 2018 under
energy mix. This is a game-changer in Asia’s
with new solar deal in drive to decarbonise and fight climate change.” Malaysia’s second large scale solar tender
round and holds a 21-year offtake agreement
Singapore Scatec Solar’s 47 MW is with Tenaga Nasional Berhad – the
Malaysian utility company.
Facebook has sealed a new deal with the solar Redsol project has started SCATEC SOLAR
energy system developer Sunseap.
The virtual power purchase agreement commercial operation
(VPPA) is expected to support its 100%
renewables target for its operations in catec Solar and partners have grid connected
Singapore and will see the rooftops of and reached commercial operation for the 47
around 1,200 public residential blocks and MW Redsol project in Northwest Malaysia.
49 government buildings to be fitted with The solar power plant is expected to deliver
solar installations, which will generate energy 67 GWh of electricity annually and lead to
for the social media giant’s operations in the the abatement of about 44,000 tonnes of CO²
region, including Facebook’s ‘first custom- emissions every year.
built data centre’ in Asia. “As the leading independent power

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