Nuku'alofa, Tonga, March 21, 2019. A large solar plant is to be built on Tongatapu to start operating by 2020, after a Power Purchase Agreement was signed with Sunergise New Zealand Limited on March 21, in Nuku'alofa.
This is Tonga's second commercially financed public-private partnership (PPP) signed by Tonga Power Ltd (TPL).
Sunergise will finance, build and operate the 6-megawatt solar farm on Tongatapu and sell the electricity generated to Tonga Power for 25-years.