Sunseap Group has signed a multi-year virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with Facebook for solar energy from the Republic's largest offshore floating solar farm in the Straits of Johor. (Photo quoted from Sunseap’s website)

The energy from the five MWp offshore floating photovoltaic system will be exported to the national grid. All renewable energy credits (RECs) from the project will be transferred to Facebook under the VPPA and will support the tech company's operations in Singapore, including Facebook's first custom-built data centre in Asia.

A VPPA is a contract structure in which a buyer agrees to purchase a project's renewable energy for a pre-agreed price. The energy can be produced from a renewable energy project that is located away from the premises of the buyer, but co-located on the same grid.

The agreement signed with Facebook is Sunseap's second VPPA with the tech company since October 2020—Sunseap and Facebook also have an agreement for renewable energy exported from solar systems installed on more than 1,200 rooftops.

About Sunseap Group

Sunseap Group is a solar energy system developer, owner and operator in Singapore, with over 400 MegaWatt-peak (MWp) of solar energy projects contracted, of which more than 168 MWp have been completed on more than 1,500 buildings in Singapore including public housing estates, as well as commercial and industrial buildings. It operates through five key units: Sunseap Leasing, Sunseap International, Sunseap Energy, Sunseap Engineering and Sunseap Solutions.

(IRuniverse)

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