Indonesia’s Riau Islands set for more big solar and storage – pv magazine International

With renewables builders Quantum Energy Asia and Ib Vogt having lately introduced plans to speculate $5 billion right into a 3.5 GW/12 GWh solar-plus-storage undertaking in Indonesia, the governor of the nation’s Riau Islands has signed up for extra utility scale photo voltaic technology and vitality storage capability.

Singaporean clear vitality firm Sunseap on Tuesday introduced it had signed a cope with Riau governor Ansar Ahmad to develop an unspecified quantity of “large-scale photo voltaic and storage” throughout the Riau Islands and is already contemplating 1.38 GWp of photo voltaic and three GWh of storage on the island of Combol, and 1.62 GWh of photo voltaic plus 3.5 GWh of storage on Citlim.

Sunseap’s largest shareholder is European utility Energías de Portugal, whose personal largest investor is state-owned energy firm China Three Gorges.

The latest undertaking introduced by Singaporean developer Quantum and its German peer goals to export all of the projected 4 TWh of photo voltaic electrical energy to be generated to town state, to assist meet 8% of its electrical energy demand.

In contrast, Sunseap says its amenities will present clear energy to Indonesia in addition to Singapore, with out specifying volumes.

Sunseap has already signed a cope with authorities entity Batam Indonesia Free Zone Authority to speculate $2 billion in a floating photo voltaic and storage undertaking on the Duriangkang reservoir on the Riau island of Batam.

In January final 12 months, state-owned Emirati developer Masdar signed an settlement with Singaporean peer Tuas Energy, French vitality firm EDF, and Indonesian state-owned utility PT Indonesia Energy to discover the event of 1.2 GW of photo voltaic technology capability, with the potential for vitality storage, on Indonesian territory, additionally for export to Singapore.