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       Bangladesh’s 35-MW Spectra




       Solar Park comes online




        BANGLADESH       BANGLADESH’S Spectra Solar Park Ltd has  132 acres (53.42 hectares) at the site, powered by
                         opened a 35-MW solar project funded by Asian  12 Sungrow central inverters, each of which has
                         Development Bank (ADB), Germany’s KfW and  a 3.125-MW rating. Chinese company Sungrow
                         the Canadian Climate Fund for the Private Sec-  Power (Singapore) carried out the engineering,
                         tor in Asia as part of government efforts to gener-  procurement, and construction (EPC) of the
                         ate 10% of the country’s power form renewables.  plant.
                           The venture, which is owned by Spectra Engi-  “The project has used [a] highly efficient cen-
                         neers and Hong Kong-based Shunfeng Invest-  tral inverter solution, which is [a] first of its kind
                         ments, achieved grid connection this week for  in Bangladesh,” said Imran Chowdhury, coun-
                         the project in Manikganj district, 85 km west of  try head for Sungrow Bangladesh. He added
                         Dhaka.                               that Sungrow wants to be country’s largest solar
                           The ADB in June signed off a $17.7mn loan  developer within five years, including in floating
                         package with the Spectra Solar Park to finance  solar and energy storage.
                         the project and make it the first private-sector   The plant is the latest utility-scale addition in
                         solar plant funded by multilateral institutions in  the nation following the connection of a 50-MW
                         Bangladesh.                          plant in the Mymensingh district of northern
                           The plant has started supplying electricity to  Bangladesh in November. A 7.6-MW project in
                         the grid and is expected to begin commercial  Sirajgang district is awaiting grid connection.
                         operation this week.                   Bangladesh has 700.84 MW of total clean
                           The government will purchase the solar elec-  energy generation capacity, of which 369.81 MW
                         tricity generated by the plant for 20 years at a rate  is grid connected. Solar accounts for 466.91 MW
                         of BDT11.12 ($0.13) per kWh.         of the total clean power figure.™
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