BSP solar plant meets int’l standard

Brunei Shell Petroleum Firm Sdn Bhd (BSP) has fulfilled the Worldwide Renewable Power Certificates (I-REC) Commonplace to trace attributes of the renewable electrical energy manufacturing from its flagship 3.3MWp Photo voltaic PV Plant at Jalan Tengah, Seria.

By means of the strong monitoring normal, BSP added new layers of credibility to the manufacturing, monitoring and operation of the photo voltaic plant.

“With the I-RECs, we’re proud to reveal the transparency and credibility of our efforts to scale back our general carbon footprint by incorporating photo voltaic in our energy combine,” BSP Managing Director and Shell Nation Chair in Brunei Darussalam Agnete Johnsgaard-Lewis stated.

“We submitted studies and energy meter readings from the photo voltaic plant to an impartial social gathering, the Inexperienced Certificates Firm from the UK, who has verified the amount of electrical energy produced and its related attribute claims. This assures that our decarbonisation journey are in accordance to international greatest practices,” she stated.

I-RECs serve to extend transparency within the power sector and supply readability about using renewable electrical energy amongst end-consumers. The I-REC Commonplace (www.irecstandard.org) ensures that issued certificates adjust to main reporting frameworks and greenhouse gasoline accounting requirements for the avoidance of double counting, double certificates issuance, and double attribute claiming.

BSP’s photo voltaic electrical energy manufacturing inside the interval of September 2021 to August 2022 have been verified and its related digital certificates issued by I-REC. The certificates additionally symbolize the discount in BSP’s emissions, categorised as oblique greenhouse gasoline emissions generated from bought electrical energy utilization.

The BSP Flagship Photo voltaic PV Plant was launched on April 6, 2021 by His Royal Highness Prince Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah ibni His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah, the Crown Prince and Senior Minister on the Prime Minister’s Workplace, as Chairman of the Board of Administrators of the Brunei Shell Joint Enterprise Corporations.

The photo voltaic plant, situated at G11 alongside Jalan Tengah, Seria, is the second photo voltaic plant in Brunei, that includes the most recent know-how in photo voltaic panels.

The development of the plant took over seven months, the place nearly 7,000 photo voltaic panels have been put in on 4 hectares of land. The solar energy generated is equal to the electrical energy consumption of roughly 600 households per 12 months.