ACGF is an ASEAN Infrastructure Fund initiative launched in 2019 to accelerate investments in green infrastructure across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries.
ADB and state-owned utility Electricité du Cambodge (EDC) issued an invitation for bids on 22 June for the design and build of the project, which will be equipped with grid-forming (GFM) inverter capabilities.
The project’s primary application will be to help integrate variable renewable energy (VRE) onto the grid in industrial zones, agricultural processing facilities and urban districts.
It will also facilitate cross-border electricity trade with Vietnam in line with the ASEAN Power Grid initiative, while the addition of grid-forming will enable the asset to participate in frequency control to stabilise the grid, a service historically performed by the rotating mass of thermal and hydroelectric generator turbines.
In March, Cambodia’s first grid-forming BESS project went into operation, a 500MW/1,000MWh asset co-located with large-scale solar PV generation in the country’s western Pursat province.
