Solar rooftop installed at Thailand's Government Complex

BANGKOK, April 26 (TNA) - Thailand's Government Complex in Chaeng Wattana area on the outskirts of Bangkok has installed a solar rooftop system, expected to help save its power cost by over 10 million baht annually. Wilas Chaloeysat, head of power service business and quality of Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA), told journalists on Wednesday that an investment fund of about 160 million baht is needed for the installation of the 2.2-megawatt-solar rooftop system, the largest of its kind, at the capital's Government Complex. Wilas assessed that it should take about 8-9 years for a full return of such the investment on the solar rooftop system installation if the Government Complex is opened for public services seven days a week. However, Wilas said, it should take longer to about 12 years for a full return of such the investment on the solar rooftop system installation as the Government Complex is actually opened for public services five days a week, Mondays-Fridays. According to the senior MEA official, his agency earlier installed a solar rooftop system at the Comptroller General's Department under the Thai Ministry of Finance in Bangkok. The senior official revealed that MEA provides a comprehensive service on all types of power system installations in the country and in neighboring countries, expected to earn the state-run agency more revenues of 12-15 per cent in 2017, from more than two billion baht totally in 2016. (TNA)