Solar Power Plants - other Asia-Pacific

Adelaide Showground Location: Australia Operator: Adelaide Showground Configuration: 1 MWp Operation: 2009 System supplier: First Solar EPC: Solar Shop Australia, Built Environs Quick facts: This project was opened by the Hon Mike Rann, Premier of South Australia, in Sep 2009 as Australia's largest rooftop solar system. It has 12,612 panels spread over 9,000m² on six roofs and two facades. Output should supply about 40% of the Showground's electricity. A special rack-loading system was devised, with the solar panels stacked on pallets, lifted by crane and then distributed via trolleys on framing rails. The contractors also used a clip-on, extrusion framing system to speed installation. The project took 3mos to complete, not much more than half of the original schedule. Photograph courtesy of Built Environs Posted 20 Sep 2009	Apolima Island Location: Samoa Operator: Electric Power Corp Configuration: 14 kWp Operation: 2007 System supplier: ?? EPC: Clay Engineering Quick facts: Apolima is the smallest inhabited island in Samoa with about 120 villagers living in a volcanic caldera. The PV system has two arrays with 86 panels, battery banks, controllers and sealed inverters. The system design includes approximately 50% overcapacity and is designed to replace an existing diesel power plant. The Apolima scheme was built with support from the Organization for Sustainable Energy and UNDP and is considered the first PV-based, mini-grid system in any Pacific Island country. Photograph courtesy of Electric Power Corp Posted 26 Apr 2008	Ayuthaya Location: Thailand Operator: Annex Power Configuration: 3 MWp Operation: 2010 System supplier: Conergy EPC: Conergy, Annex Quick facts: In Mar 2010, Conergy, Yanhee Solar, and Annex Power formed a consortium to build the largest Thai solar power plant to that date in Ayuthaya, 70km north of Bangkok. Photograph courtesy of Conergy Posted 17 Nov 2010
German Embassy Laos Location: Laos Operator: German Embassy Configuration: 5.7 kWp Operation: 2010 System supplier: CentroSolar AG EPC: CentroSolar, Sunlabob Renwable Energy Quick facts: This project was supported as part of the solar roof program of Deutsche Energie Agentur GmbH (dena). During normal operation, The system puts electricity into the grid.If there is an outage, the PV panels supply power supply for the embassy. The backup system was supplied by SMA. Photograph courtesy of CentroSolar Posted 19 Mar 2011	German European School Singapore (GESS) Location: Singapore Operator: GESS Configuration: 15 kWp Operation: 2006 System supplier: Sunset Energietechnik Quick facts: This project was supported as part of the solar roof program of Deutsche Energie Agentur GmbH (dena). It was the first grid-connected PV system in Singapore with annual output estimated at 19 MWh/yr. Photograph courtesy of GESS Posted 19 Apr 2006	Indahag Location: Philippines Operator: Cagayan Electric Power & Light Co Inc Configuration: 1 MWp Operation: 2004 System supplier: Sharp EPC: Sumitomo Quick facts: This was the largest PV plant in the developing world at completion on 26 Sep 2004. Installed cost was $5.3mn. The turnkey contractor was Sumitomo Corp and Sansha manufactured the inverters. The balance of system components were procured locally. Photograph courtesy of Cagayan Electric Power & Light Co Inc Posted 22 Dec 2010
Marble Bar Hybrid Location: Australia Operator: Horizon Power Configuration: 300 kWp solar, 1 MW diesel Operation: 2010 System supplier: ?? EPC: Sunpower Australia, Powercorp Quick facts: The Pippunyah power station was opened in Aug 2010 by Mines and Petroleum Minister Norman Moore and is one of the first such hybrid systems in the world with solar panels, flywheel energy storage and diesel gensets. A similar plant is built at Nullagine. Marble Bar is reputed to be the hottest town in Australia. Photograph courtesy of Horizon Power Posted 16 Oct 2010	Morotai Location: Indonesia Operator: PT PLN Persero Configuration: 600 kWp Operation: 2012 System supplier: ?? EPC: Optimal Power Solutions, Solar Power Indonesia Quick facts: At completion on 14 Apr 2012, this was the largest PV plant in Indonesia. The site is on Pulau Morotai in North Maluku. In addition to the PV panels, Morotai SPS had 2 x 300 kW grid tie inverters, 2 x 250 kW batterypPowered inverters, and one 4 MWh Everexceed OPzS deep cycle battery bank. Photograph courtesy of Optimal Power Solutions Posted 30 Sep 2012	Namdrik Atoll Location: Marshall Islands Operator: Marshalls Energy Co Configuration: 9.2 kWp Operation: 2004 System supplier: ?? Quick facts: The Namdrik system was originally deployed in 1996, but required extensive rehabilitation. This was funded by the Pacific Rural Renewable Energy France-Australia Common Endeavour (PREFACE), jointly funded by Australia and France, and implemented by the Secretariat for the Pacific Community (SPC). Photograph courtesy of Marshalls Energy Co Posted 4 July 2005
	Sinan Location: South Korea Operator: SunTechnics Solartechnik GmbH Configuration: 23.95 MWp Operation: 2007-2008 System supplier: Sharp EPC: SPG Solar, Dongyang Engineering & Construction Quick facts: The Sinan power station is in Jeollanam-do. SunTechnics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Conergy, installed 109,000 PV modules on the 600,000m² site. The project will sell about 27 GWh/yr on a fixed tariff for 15yrs. The total project cost about $150mn and was the largest PV plant in Asia at completion. Photograph courtesy of Conergy Posted 7 Nov 2010

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