Taung Daw Gwin 20 MW PV plant in Myanmar
Picture: Inexperienced Energy Power
Inexperienced Energy Power (GPE), a subsidiary of Myanmar’s Gold Power, stated in late December that it started working a 20 MW photo voltaic plant in Myit Thar, Myanmar.
GPE constructed the mission on a build-own-operate (BOO) foundation, after successful a bid in Myanmar’s second tender for utility-scale PV tasks. The nation’s second tender was launched in June 2021 – only a few months after Myanmar’s army coup in February. It’s aimed toward unbiased energy producers (IPP) and BOO tasks. Myanmar launched its first photo voltaic tender in Could 2020.
The Taung Daw Gwin mission has 45,980 PV modules from an undisclosed producer and 1,500 V string inverters from Chinese language producer Sungrow. Because the PV tasks tendered in Myanmar’s second tender proceed, studies from exiles level to issues associated to the development of the massive photo voltaic tasks allotted within the first tender. Sungrow obtained a mission in 2020 tende, however canceled it in April 2022, for instance.
The brand new facility is predicted to generate 25.1 MW of electrical energy yearly, in accordance with a GPE assertion. It’s linked to the Taung Daw Gwin substation and related to the Burmese grid by means of a 33 kV transmission line constructed by the corporate.
“GPE is deeply dedicated to infrastructure improvement and sustainability in Myanmar,” stated GPE Managing Director U Zaw Win. “This and different renewable vitality tasks we’re concerned in will improve the contribution of renewable vitality to the nationwide grid whereas advancing the nation’s nationwide electrification objectives.”
The corporate additionally commissioned the Thapyay Wa photo voltaic mission in Myanmar in December 2021, with a complete put in capability of 30 MW. Based on the most recent statistics from the Worldwide Renewable Power Company (IRENA), Myanmar could have an put in PV capability of 80 MW by the tip of 2021.
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