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Industrynews
JJ-LAPP CAbLe, a regional business
unit of leading industrial enterprise
Jebsen & Jessen (SeA), has
announced a partnership with Natural
energy Development Co Ltd (NeD) in
Thailand to provide cables for one of
the world’s largest thin-film solar
power plants.
Many countries in Southeast Asia are
looking towards the rapid development
of solar power as a renewable energy,
including Thailand’s board of
Investment. It recently awarded Thb
9bn to NeD to construct the Lopburi
Solar Power Plant, which features the
world’s largest thin-film solar
photovoltaic (PV) facilities.
JJ-Lapp Cable will supply a total of
1,200km of Ölflex® Solar XLR Cable,
which will be used to transmit the DC
current from the PV panel to the airway
box which is extended to the inverter.
Located in Thailand’s central province
of Lopburi, the plant will have a power
generation capacity of 73 megawatts
(MW) in the first phase of
construction, and an additional 11
MW in phase two, bringing total
generation capacity up to 84 MW.
When completed, it is expected to be
one of the world’s largest power
plants in terms of power generation,
ahead of facilities in Germany and
Spain, which currently produce 54
MW and 60 MW, respectively. A 280
MW solar power plant is due to be
completed in Arizona, uSA, by the
end of this year.
The plant will comprise half a million
solar panels and is expected to
reduce carbon emissions by over 1.3
million tons annually. It will also
reduce the need for imported fuel by
over 35,000 tons a year.
The Lopburi plant is also the first
development of its kind to gain
assistance from the Asian
Development bank, under the
organisation’s initiative to provide
financial support to alternative energy
projects worldwide to encourage
sustainable development and reduce
global warming.
“The supply of 1,200km of cables for
the Lopburi Solar Power Plant is by
far the largest deal in the area of
renewable energy for us,” said Mr
Kongkarn Paseepol, JJ-Lapp Cable
(Thailand) area sales manager.
“Our products meet the stringent
requirements from our customer that
the cable is designed and conforms to
TuV’s 2 Pfg 1169/08.2007 requirements
for cables to be used in photovoltaic
systems and a life expectancy of 25
years.”
Construction for the solar power plant
began in August last year and will be
carried out in two phases, with
operations starting by the end of 2011.
JJ-Lapp Cable (S) Pte Ltd – Singapore
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Lapp-ing up the sun
at solar power plant
m JJ-Lapp will provide the cables
for one of the world’s largest
solar power plants in Thailand