Located some 250 kilometres northeast of Bangkok, the new plant will be Conergy’s fourth in the country.
“All around the world, ongoing climate change is increasingly entailing natural disasters, as has happened recently in Thailand,” said Alexander Lenz, President Southeast Asia & Middle East at Conergy, referring to the extensive flooding that has recently occurred in the country.
“These floods represented a great challenge for us – a challenge, however, that we have mastered and that is not stopping us from building further solar parks here,” Lenz continued. “On the contrary, there is hardly a more convincing argument than these floods for solar as a sustainable and clean form of energy. Moreover, thanks to the comprehensive worry-free insurance, the investors of the existing parks have been protected against such flooding damages as well as the resulting interruption of the energy production.”
Under the terms of the contract, Conergy will be responsible for planning, engineering, and supplying the components for the 79,000 square metre park.
The company will also act as general contractor on the project.
In cooperation with local partner Ensys Co. Ltd, Conergy will be installing over 64,000 thin-film modules on 120 kilometres of Conergy SolarLinea mounting systems.
Twenty-seven Conergy IPG 300C inverters in Conergy CIS central inverter stations will be feeding around 13,000 megawatt hours of clean energy into the Thai grid on completion of the project during summer 2012.
The plant will supply enough power for around 4,000 households and prevent the release of some 7,000 tons of damaging CO2 emissions in the kingdom each year.
“I’m very proud of our Southeast Asia Team,” said Marc Lohoff, Corporate Vice President and President for Conergy Asia Pacific & Middle East. “The fact that they managed to secure this major order in spite of the unfortunate events in the country due to recent flood illustrates our strong position in this region – as well as in India, Australia and the Middle East.”
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