$12.5 million solar farm announced

Construction on a $12.5 million solar farm in Svay Rieng province will begin in the next few days, and will feed 10 megawatts (MW) a day into the national grid, officials announced yesterday. The 10-hectare site in Bavet City will be built and operated by Sunseap Asset (Cambodia), the local subsidiary of Singapore-based Sunseap International, and marks the first such facility in Cambodia. It will be an important contributor to easing Cambodia’s reliance on imported electricity, explained Sunseap International’s chairman Frank Phuan at a press conference yesterday. … 

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