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Sembcorp and YCH Group Complete 2.8MW Rooftop Solar Farm

Published on 26 Mar 2019
Sembcorp Industries 
Sembcorp Industries and YCH Group are pleased to announce the completion of a 2.8MW rooftop solar farm built, owned and operated by Sembcorp atop Supply Chain City, YCH's 2 million square foot flagship facility in Singapore.

Close to 8,000 solar panels will provide renewable energy for the building and its tenants under a long-term contract, with surplus power channelled to the grid. The panels are expected to generate over 3,400MWh of green power annually, enough to power more than 770 four-room HDB flats for a year. This will help to avoid about 1.5 million kg of CO2e emissions a year for the building and its tenants, equivalent to the impact of taking almost 320 cars off the road. This further enhances the sustainability of Supply Chain City.

With the successful completion of Supply Chain City's rooftop solar farm, YCH and Sembcorp will now look to power other YCH's facilities with solar energy, in countries such as China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.

This solar energy system is backed by a digital system at the Sembcorp Solar Performance Monitoring Centre housed within the same building. Using real-time tracking devices, this centralised digital platform remotely monitors the output of every single string of rooftop solar system installed at Supply Chain City as well as at all of Sembcorp's other solar power projects in Singapore.

Koh Chiap Khiong, Head of Singapore, Southeast Asia & China (Energy), Sembcorp, said, "Sembcorp takes pride in providing the best solutions to its customers. With the successful completion of the solar energy system at Supply Chain City, we are pleased to partner YCH in helping them to provide their clients a solution which instantly cuts their carbon footprint and gives them cheaper electricity. In addition, the set-up of the Sembcorp Solar Performance Monitoring Centre embodies the Sembcorp Difference - where we do not just install the panels and sell power, but also think holistically and employ advanced digital solutions to enhance our performance and value for our customers. This system makes the operation and maintenance of our solar assets more robust and enables us to have better visibility and certainty over their reliability."

Dr Robert Yap, Executive Chairman of YCH said, "Pervasive innovation translates strongly to how YCH builds and manages our facilities. With increasing scarcity of natural resources and extreme weather and environmental changes, YCH conscientiously takes steps to ensure our facilities and practices are efficient and environmentally sustainable. Our corporate social responsibility efforts in championing green logistics also seek to value-add to our clients' green endeavours. The inauguration of the solar energy system with Sembcorp marks a new milestone in YCH efforts to build on our green initiatives. We look forward to collaborating with them and leverage their smart solar energy system to power our warehouses across the region."


Source: Sembcorp
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