Unveiled earlier in March this year, Proton’s solar power initiative has been rolled out at its Tanjung Malim manufacturing plant with the aim of reducing CO2 emissions by 11,536 tonnes a year in addition to the generation of financial savings from its utilities expenses.
Now, the national car maker has released a short video depicting the early stages of construction of the solar energy harvesting setup, situated over the property’s 23.4-acre motor pool carpark that is comprised of 2,880 parking spaces. According to the description within the video, a total of 441 km of DC cabling was used for the motor pool carpark and the rooftop solar panel arrays.
All in, the motor pool carpark is covered by 20,544 bi-facial solar panels, so named for their design that enables the setup to harvest solar energy both from the sunlight above, as well as solar energy reflected from…
Proton solar energy initiative in Tanjung Malim – up to 441 km of DC cable used for rooftop solar panel setup
