At the 2022 United Nations Ocean Conference, which just ended in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, on July 1, Portugal's large utility company EDP (Electricity de Portugal) will expand its offshore floating offshore photovoltaic + offshore farm project in Southeast Asia. By 2030, the total capacity of floating photovoltaic projects on rivers and oceans in Southeast Asia will reach 16 GW.
The first offshore PV farm project in Southeast Asia, with a capacity of 5 MW, was built in Singapore last year by Singapore's Sunseap, the fourth largest PV project operator in Southeast Asia, EDP CEO Miguel Stilwell said on Friday. Completed, showing "positive and encouraging results".
"Electric Power Portugal 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 region," Stilwell told the UN Ocean Congress in Lisbon, Portugal last week. period indicated.
He said the floating PV project in Singapore, which is the size of five football fields, contains 13,300 PV panels and 30,000 floating bodies, and generated 6.1 GW of electricity per hour during its first year of operation, which ended in March this year. , enough to meet the electricity needs of 1,250 households.
EDP Renováveis, the wind power business unit of Portugal’s EDP Group, completed the acquisition of Singapore’s Sunseap in December last year to enter the fast-growing renewable energy market in the Asia-Pacific region. $7.19 billion).
Sunseap's investment project pool is spread across nine markets, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, with a total capacity of 5.5 GW, at various stages of development.
Rynstad Energy, a consultancy based in the Norwegian 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 while there are only 341 MW of floating PV projects under construction or operation in Southeast Asia so far, this capacity will reach 6.6 GW in 2025 and 16 GW in 2030 with capacity under planning and development, Rynstad said. .
"I think that by 2030, EDP could gain a larger share of the total capacity of 16 GW through offshore floating PV farm projects," Stilwell said, explaining that the seas in Southeast Asia are comparatively more than the rest of the world. The waves are much smoother in the region, and the large number of islands in Southeast Asia themselves can provide protection for floating photovoltaic projects at sea.
Continuing, EDP also recently constructed the largest floating floating PV project in Europe to date on a dam in southern Portugal.