EDTA Acquires Singapore's Sunseap And Bets On The Offshore PV plus Offshore Farm Project in Southeast Asia

EDTA acquires Singapore's Sunseap and bets on the Offshore PV plus Offshore Farm project in Southeast Asia:

At the 2022 United Nations Ocean Conference, which just concluded in Lisbon, portugal, on July 1, Portugal's large utility EDP (EDP) is expanding its offshore floating offshore photovoltaic plus offshore farm project in Southeast Asia, which is expected to reach a total capacity of 16 GW by 2030.

EDP chief executive Miguel Stilwell said on Friday that the first offshore PV farm project in Southeast Asia, with a capacity of 5 MW, was completed in Singapore's homegrown construction by Singapore's Fourth Largest PV project operator in Southeast Asia last year, showing "positive and encouraging results".

EDF sees the floating PV business as another entry point for its expansion in Southeast Asia and is already evaluating and developing other projects in the Southeast Asia region," Stilwell said last week on the sidelines of the United Nations Ocean Congress in Lisbon, Portugal.

He said Singapore's water PV projects, which are the size of five football fields and contain 13,300 photovoltaic panels and 30,000 floating bodies, generate 6.1 GW of electricity per hour during their first year of operation until March this year, enough to meet the electricity needs of 1,250 households.

EDP Renováveis, a wind power business unit of Portugal's EDP Group, completed its acquisition of Singapore's Sunseap in December last year to enter the fast-growing renewable energy market in the Asia-Pacific region, with DÉline planning to invest S$10 billion (US$7.19 billion) in Southeast Asia by 2030.

Sunseap's investment portfolio is located in nine markets in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, with a total capacity of 5.5 GW, at different stages of development.

Rynstad Energy, a consultancy based in Norway's capital Oslo, said in October that Southeast Asia could become the world's largest floating PV market, especially for projects in river and dam areas.

Rynstad said that although so far, there are only 341 MW of water PV projects under construction or operation in Southeast Asia, with the capacity under planned construction and development, this capacity will reach 6.6 GW by 2025 and 16 GW by 2030.

"I think by 2030, Portuguese power companies can get a larger share of the 16 GW of total capacity through offshore floating PV farm projects," Stilwell said, adding that the seas in Southeast Asia are much more choppy than the rest of the world, and that the large number of islands in southeast Asia can themselves provide protection for offshore floating PV projects.

Going on, EDP also recently built the largest floating water PV project in Europe to date on a dam in southern Portugal.

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