According to an Aug 27 announcement, EDPR and Microsoft have signed a 20-year offtake agreement. This is the second agreement signed between both companies in Singapore; Microsoft announced in 2018 an agreement to purchase 100% of a similar 60MWp project by Sunseap Group (now EDP Renewables APAC), which marked Microsoft’s first clean energy deal in Asia.
Microsoft will purchase 100% of the solar energy exported to the Singapore grid from EDP Renewables’ (EDPR) SolarNova 8 project. The project consists of installing up to 200 megawatt-peak (MWp) of solar capacity via panels atop 1,075 public housing buildings and 101 government-owned buildings in Singapore.
EDPR was awarded Phase 8 of the SolarNova programme in February. The project is both the largest solar project in Singapore and the largest initiative under the government’s SolarNova programme.
