TNB Enters Vietnam Solar Market with First Rooftop Solar Investment, Extends Partnership with Sunsea

04/03/2021

Tenaga Nasional Berhad’s (TNB) wholly-owned subsidiary, TNB Renewables Sdn. Bhd., will acquire a 39% stake from Sunseap Group in a 21.6MW project comprising 5 rooftop solar plants in Vietnam (the Project) from Singapore’s Sunseap Group. This acquisition extends TNB’s collaboration with Sunseap, beyond the Malaysia and Singapore cross border partnership, to capture the rapid growth in the Vietnam renewable energy (RE) market. 

The Project has secured the Feed-in Tariff (FiT) under the FiT2 scheme in Vietnam which is intended to promote investments in renewable energy sources through lucrative and abovemarket rate tariffs. Having achieved commercial operation date in December 2020, all five (5) plants are under 20-year Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) with the state-owned utility company, Vietnam Electricity, to supply clean energy to the country’s national grid. Sunseap currently holds 90% stake in the projects, which will be reduced to 51% upon completion of the 39% stake acquisition by TNB Renewables slated for the first quarter of this year. Sun Times Energy Joint Stock Company, an existing shareholder of the projects, will continue to own 10% of the equity interest.

The acquisition marks an important milestone for TNB as it expands its international RE footprint into South East Asia. Prior to this acquisition, TNB’s global presence in RE consists of a total portfolio of 2,732.3MW in Malaysia (including 2,536.1MW of large hydro) and 666MW across the UK, Turkey and India comprising mainly solar, wind and hydro energy generation assets. TNB aims to grow its overall RE portfolio to 8,300MW by 2025 (including large hydro).

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