Banpu, Thailand’s largest coal company, has moved to acquire two solar farms in Australia as it seeks to boost capacity in this field of renewable energy roughly sixfold by 2025. Banpu announced Tuesday the A$97.5 million ($75.4 million) purchase of the power stations with a combined capacity of 166 megawatts from North Sydney-based New Energy […]
Banpu Buys Solar Farms in Australia
SET-listed Banpu Plc, a non-oil energy conglomerate, has acquired two utility-scale solar farms in New South Wales, Australia, in a deal worth A$97.5 million (2.33 billion baht) to further increase its clean power generation capacity. The 110.9MW Beryl Solar Farm in Australia is a newly acquired asset of Banpu Plc. The new assets are Beryl […]
Solar firm Sunseap seeks IPO in Singapore
Sunseap, which supplies Facebook, Apple Inc and Microsoft with solar energy in Singapore, is planning to go public on SGX. Sunseap aims to list its shares publicly by the end of this year The IPO fundraise could reach S$600 million, according to Bloomberg Its investors have included Singapore’s Temasek, Dubai’s Dutco, and Thailand’s Banpu Amazon […]