Unveiled earlier in March this 12 months, Proton’s solar power initiative has been rolled out at its Tanjung Malim manufacturing plant with the purpose of lowering CO2 emissions by 11,536 tonnes a 12 months in addition to the era of monetary financial savings from its utilities bills.
Now, the nationwide automobile maker has launched a short video depicting the early levels of building of the solar energy harvesting setup, located over the property’s 23.4-acre motor pool carpark that’s comprised of 2,880 parking areas. According to the outline throughout the video, a complete of 441 km of DC cabling was used for the motor pool carpark and the rooftop solar panel arrays.
All in, the motor pool carpark is roofed by 20,544 bi-facial solar panels, so named for their design that allows the setup to harvest solar energy each from the daylight above, in addition to solar energy mirrored from the bottom and the parked vehicles under it, in addition to offering shelter for stated vehicles.
The solar panel facility can generate up to 9 MWp (megawatt-peak) of electrical energy, and provide the carmaker up to RM4.39 million in financial savings on annual energy bills.
This is complemented by an extra 3 MWp from roof-mounted solar panels atop the principle manufacturing facility constructing, which contribute a further RM1.46 million in financial savings, stated Proton. The setup was commissioned and constructed by the Pekat Group and its affiliate, MFP Solar.
Proton’s efforts in direction of attaining carbon neutrality started with the Green Wheel and Green Policy in 2015, which is a 5-part plan comprised of information gathering and evaluation, energy effectivity initiatives, waste and water administration, and the fourth part, the solar energy initiative.
The fifth and ultimate part is the digitising of all of Proton’s energy information in order for Proton’s energy managers to have energy consumption predictions and prescriptive measures in order to scale back energy consumption throughout all of the corporate’s crops and workplace amenities, stated Proton.
GALLERY: Proton bi-facial solar energy facility, Tanjung Malim
