Tenaga Nasional Berhad had recently signed an MOU with Glomac an established developer on the potential exploration of solar and green facility projects at potential sites.
TNB President and Chief Executive Officer, Dato’ Indera Ir. Baharin Din. Baharin stressed that the partnership would enhance the sustainable business values of both TNB and Glomac in developing Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) capabilities in support of Malaysia’s aspirations to be a carbon-neutral nation by 2050.
Baharin said that the TNB-GTSB’s collaboration is part of TNB’s commitment to ensuring the success of its ESG initiatives across its electricity value chain, from transitioning power generation to cleaner sources, enhancing the Grid of the Future (GoTF) to enabling more green solutions and facilitating consumer participation in the energy transition.
On the floating solar, Baharin explained that compared with traditional solar photovoltaic systems, the former has far more advantages than just meeting the day-to-day energy needs of the customers. “It saves the need to use land, it does not affect a lake’s ecosystem, and it enjoys a higher power generation efficiency as the water evaporation would operate as a natural cooling system.”
GTSB’s core business is providing floating solar photovoltaic (PV) facilities for design, manufacturing, and installing solar panels on floating platforms or pontoons on bodies of water, such as reservoirs, lakes, and ponds.
