Vietnam educational facility gets Mitsubishi solar system

MHI donated a solar power generation system with  tandem-type photovoltaic modules and peripheral equipment to DOWACEN.

 The solar power generation system will provide electricity for classroom lighting and enable uninterrupted teaching even during power outages for Dong Anh-Okinawa Economic and Cultural Exchange Center or DOWACEN in Hanoi, a facility that also provides Japanese language teaching.

The solar power generation system donated includes "MHI Tandem" tandem-type PV modules with a total power generation capacity of approximately 12 kilowatts, a power conditioner and module mounting structure. Being operable as a stand-alone power source, the system is able to provide electricity for four classrooms, for lighting and other uses, during a power outage.

The ceremony was attended by Koji Kondo, General Manager of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' Corporate Social Responsibility Department; Tomoo Hirayama, MHI's Hanoi Office Chief Representative; Hirotaka Masuda, President of MHI Aerospace Vietnam Co., Ltd., the company's commercial aircraft component production subsidiary in Hanoi; and ten MHIVA employees who graduated from DOWACEN. At the ceremony, after a commemorative plaque to be fit on the system and the list of donated goods was handed to DOWACEN, the switch to activate the system was turned on.

The MHI Tandem is a next-generation thin-film PV module having a tandem layer structure consisting of a microcrystalline silicon layer on conventional amorphous silicon layer. Tandem-type PV modules are able to absorb a wider solar-spectral range - from ultraviolet to infrared - and generate more electricity than amorphous type PV modules.