Alba to start installing Solar PV Panels over 37,000 m2

Alba to start installing Solar PV Panels over 37,000 m2

Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), one of the world’s largest Aluminium smelters, announced that it has awarded its Solar Farm Project towards Advanced United Systems (AUS) to install Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Panels over 37,000 m2 with a capacity of more than 6 Megawatts (MW).

The Solar Farm Project will consist of around 11,300 solar panels to be fixed on the rooftop of Alba car parks and some of its buildings to include the Spent Pot Lining Treatment (SPL) Plant. The Solar Farm Project will generate in the range of 10,539 MWHr per year and approximately 7,591,760 kilograms of carbon emissions would be reduced per year -- corresponding to a total reduction of 189,794,000 kilograms of carbon emissions over 25-year span.

Commenting on the importance of the Solar Panel Farm to Alba, Alba’s Chairman of the Board Shaikh Daij bin Salman bin Daij Al Khalifa stated:

“Sustainability is entrenched in our Vision, Mission, and Values; this Project is fully aligned with our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) ambitions and our pledge to realise HRH the Crown Prince and Prime Minister’s objectives of Net Zero Emissions by 2060 as made during the 26th Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26).

I trust that upon the completion of