KUALA LUMPUR: Solarvest Holdings Bhd has secured a contract from Southern Cable Group Bhd to install a rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) system on its cable and wires manufacturing facility in Kuala Ketil, Kedah.
The PV system specialist said it would undertake the full turnkey engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) works for a 2.7 megawatt-peak (MWp) rooftop solar PV system.
The project is expected to complete by end of May 2021 and Solarvest will provide operations and maintenance, via its Solarvest's PowerTrack service, for the rooftop solar plant for three years.
Solarvest group chief executive officer Davis Chong Chun Shiong said the company would support Southern Cable to adopt green energy solutions as well as achieve better energy cost savings and reduce carbon footprint in its operations.
"Additionally for this project, we will be using Southern Cable's PV cables and wires, which are currently the only locally-produced offering to be certified by TÜV SÜD. This project would thus serve as an opportune reference site for us, and we look forward to work closely with Southern Cable in our upcoming projects," he said in a statement today.
Chong said locally-manufactured products would provide more options to the industry players and improves the ecosystem of the renewable energy sector.
"The increase in local participations in the supply chain is encouraging as it signals the robust potentials of solar PV market here. The growth of solar PV industry in Malaysia has been phenomenal in the recent years.
"We expect the uptake trend to remain upward as more corporates are increasing its efforts in fulfilling its environment, social and governance goals," he added.
The solar PV system will be equipped with Southern Cable's in-house manufactured cables and wires, which are currently the only locally-produced products certified by TÜV SÜD for use in solar PV systems.
Solarvest said the rooftop solar PV system would generate over 3.8 million kW/H of clean energy and off-set about 2,624 tonnes carbon emissions annually.
Southern Cable group managing director Tung Eng Hai said the company's operations require a large amount of energy as the solar PV system by Solarvest would provide significant cost savings in the long run.
"We believe that this is a step forward in not only expanding our presence in the rapidly growing domestic solar PV industry, but also making our cables and wires highly viable as import substitutes," he said.
Tung said the company looks forward to contributing and playing a part in realising the government's target of 20 per cent renewable energy capacity mix, by powering up more solar PV systems with its locally-produced cables and wires.