Taiwan's Giga Solar eyes Southeast Asian solar farm projects

Taiwanese solar material maker Giga Solar Materials Corp has set its sights on several new solar farm projects in Southeast Asia.

Company chairman Jerry Chen said that Giga Solar is preparing for bidding for new projects next year, including in overseas markets,” Chen said. 

The company has completed builting and is operating a 1.2 megawatt solar power farm, Taiwan’s biggest privately owned solar plant, in Tainan and had the solar systems connected to the national grid in June

“We are seeing building solar power plants as a core business for the group.”

Giga Solar, a subsidiary of disc storage company Gigastorage Corp, would leverage Giga-storage’s presence in Thailand to bid for solar farm projects there, Chen said.

“The Thai and Malaysian governments aggressively promote the use of “green” energy, such as solar power, he said.

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