Adb Cambodia Solar Power Project

Initial poverty and social analysis ipsa provides an initial poverty and social assessment of people who may be beneficially or adversely affected by a project.

Adb cambodia solar power project.

Once the mega solar power plant is developed in this project and launches transmission to the grid environmental burden associated with generating grid electricity in coal fired 17 facilities will be lowered. 24 may 2019 news release. Adb is funding singapore. The auction for 60 megawatts mw of solar photovoltaic pv capacity conducted by electricite du cambodge edc cambodia s national electricity utility has led to the lowest bid of 3 877 cents us dollar per kilowatt hour by prime road alternative company limited.

And signal to the government investors and international financiers that private sector led infrastructure investments can be. This document dated november 2016 is provided for the adb project 50248 001 in cambodia. Specifically coal fired power plants generate gases containing air pollutants such as sox nox and other particles. This document dated september 2016 is provided for the adb project 50248 001.

Phnom penh cambodia 5 september 2019 the auction for 60 megawatts mw of solar photovoltaic pv capacity conducted by electricite du cambodge edc cambodia s national electricity utility has led to the lowest bid of 3 877 cents us dollar per kilowatt hour by prime road alternative company limited. The asian development bank adb is providing financial assistance for the construction of cambodia s first large scale solar power project a 10mw farm based in bavet. The costs of solar projects are coming down rapidly and the expectation is cambodia can take advantage of the lower project costs in terms of the lower delivered cost of power earlier this year adb partnered on a separate solar project in cambodia providing a 9 2 million loan to singapore based sunseap group to build a 10 mw solar farm in bavet. The project supported by the asian development bank adb drew 26 bidders including several global companies and has achieved the lowest power purchase tariff for a solar project so far recorded in southeast asia.

Cambodia solar power project. Environmental and social impact assessments examine the social and environmental consequences of a project prior to execution and provide information to decision makers and the public about the environmental implications of proposed actions before decisions are made. Adb s leading role in the financing package of the project will help demonstrate the benefits of increasing cambodia s power supply through low cost ppp arrangements from indigenous renewable energy sources. The project supported by the asian development bank adb drew 26 bidders including several global companies and has achieved the lowest power purchase tariff for a solar.

Initial poverty and social analysis asian development bank. The project is the first utility scale solar power plant in cambodia and the first competitively tendered renewable energy ipp project in the country.