Photovoltaic specialist Conergy has won a contract in Thailand to plan, engineer and supply materials for a 9MW solar park.
This is the company's fourth win in the country and Conergy will also act as general contractor.
According to a statement by the company, on cooperation with local partner Ensys Co, it will be installing over 64,000 thin-film modules on 120km of Conergy SolarLinea mounting systems.
'All around the world, ongoing climate change is increasingly entailing natural disasters, as has happened recently in Thailand,' said Alexander Lenz, President Southeast Asia & Middle East at Conergy.
'These floods represented a great challenge for us - a challenge, however, that we have mastered and that is not stopping us from building further solar parks here. On the contrary. There is hardly a more convincing argument than these floods for solar as a sustainable and clean form of energy. Moreover, thanks to the comprehensive worry-free insurance, the investors of the existing parks have been protected against such flooding damages as well as the resulting interruption of the energy production.'
The Thai government has begun the move towards a low carbon agenda and plans to deliver 500MW of installed capacity by 2020.