Prime Road Group, First Solar completes 4 solar farms

The farms total 18MW of capacity.

Prime Road Group and First Solar, Inc. completed four solar farms totaling 18 megawatts (MWDC) of capacity in Thailand. 

Located across the Ayutthaya and Pathum Thani Provinces, the Prime Road Group Co-Op Project utilises more than 158,500 First Solar thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules to produce approximately 29,600 megawatt-hours (MWh) of clean electricity in the first year of operation.

Developed under Thailand’s Governmental Agency and Agricultural Cooperatives Program, the completion marks an important milestone for the country as it continues to grow its installed solar PV capacity and target 30 per cent renewable energy by 2036.

Thailand-based developer Prime Road Group has partnered with First Solar as the module supplier and Bouygues-Thai Ltd – a subsidiary of the French Bouygues Group – as the Engineering, Procurement and Construction contractor for the delivery of the project.

The project will produce enough clean solar energy each year to power 12,000 homes in Thailand and displace approximately 14,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually.

The electricity from the Prime Road Group Co-Op project will be sold via a 25-year Power Purchase Agreement with the Provincial Electricity Authority of Thailand at a rate of THB 5.66 per kilowatt hour.