Featured in Blooming roofs – 10-2020

Vietnam’s most ambitious array

Could a single installation define a brief but explosive period of ambitious PV deployment? The massive 500 MW Dau Tieng solar array – among Southeast Asia’s largest PV installations – makes a strong case for being the most impressive project of Vietnam’s recent solar boom. But the allure of Dau Tieng is about much more than size – it’s about what’s beneath the PV modules.

By

Brian Publicover

12 Oct 2020

Image: Xuan Cau Holdings / B.Grimm Power Public Company

The smarter E Award judges were also clearly impressed by the Dau Tieng installation in Vietnam, as it was a finalist in the “outstanding projects” category earlier this year. Vietnamese developer Xuan Cau teamed up with Bangkok-based B.Grimm Power to invest about VND 9,100 billion ($392.5 million) in the unique, three-stage solar plant. PowerChina Huadong …

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