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available in the market. These high-powered
products currently produced by Trina Solar
are making room for the 670W successor,
which can already be ordered for next year.
“Trina Solar has the most advanced
technology and the most powerful modules
with great performance. This, for sure, helped
Focus to choose us,” said Álvaro García
Maltrás, Trina Solar’s vice president for Latin
America and the Caribbean.
According to Focus Energia, the project’s
energy production will be entirely destined for
to optimise efficiency and maximise the use of certificate for the solar farm, to be developed the free market. The strategy follows the latest
renewable generation. by Prime Road Alternative. trend in which renewable energy generation
The Gruyere microgrid is expected to be In February, the ADB approved a $16.4mn entrepreneurs tend to prefer to negotiate
commissioned in the fourth quarter of 2021. loan for the project. The Metro Manila-based directly with clients, instead of competing
“We are at the forefront of this energy lender noted in a September 2019 press in auctions promoted by Aneel, to serve the
journey, and we are proud to be so,” Mathews release that auction for the project, which captive market exclusively.
said on Wednesday. was conducted by EdC, ended with Prime According to Alan Zelazo, Focus CEO, it
Road Alternative’s lowest bid of $0.3877 per is estimated that 2 thousand direct jobs and
kilowatt-hour. 4 thousand indirect jobs will be generated
And another 60MW solar power farm in during the system’s implementation.
SOL AR Teuk Phos was commissioned and connected Furthermore, Futura 1 comes at an
to the national grid in April, which brought opportune moment. “Despite being a long
Cambodia’s Kampong the Kingdom’s total solar power capacity to term project, we are pleased to collaborate
with the country to increase its production
150MW, according to Ministry of Mines and
Chhnang solar farm to Energy director-general for Energy Victor capacity in an extremely severe hydric crisis
Jona.
period.”
break ground Taing Krasaing commune, is developed by 550 people working on site. Operations are
The project, located in Romeas village,
The project is already underway and has
Prime Road Alternative (Cambodia) will soon SchneiTec Renewable Co Ltd, a joint venture scheduled to begin in April 2022.
break ground on a 60MW solar power plant between Chinese and local partners, he said. Operating in Brazil since 2017, Trina Solar
in southwestern Kampong Chhnang province According to the EdC, the national grid sees great potential in the country. “Brazil
valued at $37.4mn. reached 320MW of capacity from solar is Latin America’s leading market for solar
Provincial Department of Mines and generation facilities after a 60MW project energy. It is a super dynamic market in high
Energy director Uk Ros told the Phnom Penh was commissioned in northern Battambang growth and a priority for Trina Solar. We
Post on July 28 that the project would be built province’s Thma Koul district in March. entered a little later than our competitors, but
over a year and a half in Teuk Phos district, we are now consolidating ourselves in the
near the border with Samaki Meanchey country,” says Alvaro.
district to the southeast, with financial TRINA SOLAR
support from the Asian Development Bank SOL AR
(ADB).
Prime Road Alternative has purportedly China’s Trina Solar ships SOL AR
completed an impact resolution process
involving potentially-affected villagers, at the 600W+ series Vertex Indonesia begins
instruction of local authorities over concerns
about damage to crops in the vicinity, he said. modules to Brazil construction of SE Asia’s
The company will sell the power generated
by the solar farm to state-owned utility Trina Solar is the major vendor of largest solar power plant
company Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) to photovoltaic modules for the Futura 1 Project,
supply the national grid and distribute the a project with 22 solar energy parks, which is Indonesia is stepping up its efforts to reach
electricity throughout the country, especially being developed by Focus Energia, in Juazeiro, clean energy targets with the construction of
to areas with energy shortages, he added. Bahia, Brazil. a 145-MW floating solar power plant, set to
“Kampong Chhnang province has received The project will be implemented in three be the largest in Southeast Asia, the Jakarta
a series of solar energy projects due to its phases. The first phase has an installed Globe reported.
favourable geographical location which capacity of 850 MWp, which places the project The project, with constructions underway
receives ample sunlight, and we have two among the largest in Brazil, at the moment. in West Java, secured financing from state
substations to transmit electricity to the The initial modules will leave China in 108 utility company Perusahaan Listrik Negara
national grid,” Ros said. containers in the second week of August with (PLN) and Masdar of United Arab Emirates
On January 5, the Council for the 59,292 pieces of 600W series of modules. The this week.
Development of Cambodia (CDC) announced bifacial modules, with 210 mm cells, belong Solar may be Indonesia’s best shot of
that it had approved a final registration to the Vertex line, with the latest technology reaching its short-term clean energy target, an

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