Soma Group Power Deal for Kampong Cham

26/6/2012Cambodia’s Soma Group signed a US$3 million power station deal yesterday with Indian company Ankur Scientific for a 1.5 megawatt rice husk power plant in Kampong Cham. A team from General Electric, headed by Kenji Uenishi, president of Energy Asia Pacific, was on hand at the Himawari Hotel as part of a power generation seminar to announce the project. According to the agreement, Soma group will be the power plant operator and Ankur Scientific, the largest biomass-to-energy solutions company in India, will supply and commission the power plant, including General Electric generators. The contract signed is an agreement for an eight month engineering procurement and construction (EPC) project that will power a rice mill, using that mill’s rice husks for the plant’s fuel. Other electricity from the plant is expected to be sold to the local power company through the existing electricity grid.