Philippines' First Megawatt-Scale Floating Solar Plant Successfully Connected to the Grid
HEFEI, China, Aug. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In active response to the Philippines' energy transition strategy, Black & Veatch, a global leader in energy and infrastructure, has successfully completed the country's first megawatt-scale floating solar power plant at the Malubog Reservoir in Cebu City. The project, fully equipped with Sungrow FPV's floating solar system solutions, supplies clean and stable power to the Carmen Copper mining site, contributing to the Philippines' national target of achieving a 35% renewable energy share by 2030.
With a total capacity of 4.99 MW, the plant's electricity is entirely for self-consumption, meeting around 10% of the mine's energy demand.
Highlights of Sungrow FPV's floating solar system:
- Robust Wind Resistance: Located in an area prone to strong winds and extreme weather, the project was engineered with a special anti-wind and wave design based on an ultimate wind speed of 75 m/s, enhancing the system's impact resistance by 50%. It passed fatigue tests of over one million cycles, far exceeding the industry benchmark of 100,000 cycles. An elastic mooring system effectively absorbs and dissipates wave energy, ensuring long-term stability.
- Superior Anti-Corrosion Performance: An innovative composite coating scheme was applied for anti-corrosion protection. The system withstood 4,200 hours of the harshest CX-class environmental testing and showed no changes after over 18,000 hours of real-world marine exposure, effectively addressing the project's corrosion challenges.
Floating solar plants save valuable land resources and offer high generation efficiency, making this project a key step in the Philippines' mining sector's green transition. From solution design and installation to grid connection and commissioning, the Sungrow FPV service team provided end-to-end technical support and rapid response, ensuring smooth project completion.
Sungrow FPV will continue to drive innovation and deepen collaboration with global partners to deliver more benchmark projects and accelerate the path toward a greener, more efficient renewable energy future.
About Sungrow FPV
Sungrow Floating PV is a key high-tech enterprise dedicated to providing floating PV system solutions, focusing on providing ecologically friendly, reliable, and efficient Floating PV system solutions. With the vision of "to be the global navigator of FPV", its persistent pursuit is to provide high-yield one-stop services and lead the environmentally friendly development of floating PV.
Learn more at http://en.sungrowfpv.com/
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