EFL Global Freeport chooses Sino Lanka Power Gen as solar PV partner

From left: Expolanka CFO and Group Finance Director Mushtaq Ahmed, Expolanka Executive Director and Group CEO Hanif Yusoof, SLPG Director Kumar Sangakkara and SLPG Chairman Bob Kundanmal

EFL Global Freeport (Pvt.) Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Expolanka Holdings PLC, has signed up with Sino Lanka Power Gen for the installation of solar PV at its facility located at the Katunayake BOI zone. 

Expolanka Holdings PLC Group CEO Hanif Yusoof remarked, “Sustainability is at the very core of our business operations and this initiative reflects our ongoing commitment to green our carbon footprint while fulfilling our promise to customers to provide sustainable logistics solutions. We selected SLPG as our partner to carry out the installation of a 1.1MW solar PV facility on our EFL Freeport facility in the Katunayake BOI zone. We were especially impressed with its technical prowess, especially when it came to ensuring all the required safety protocols and efforts gone to protecting our facility.”

Sino Lanka Power Gen, a renewable energy company specialising in investing and developing solar energy projects in Sri Lanka, has installed to date 10MW of rooftop projects with 12MW in the pipeline. Its focus is on utilising the best-in-class products, following a FIDIC approach to project management. It maintains IEC standards when it comes to installation, commissioning and maintenance of its projects, whilst adopting a proprietary monitoring software to track and correct any issues in real-time - improving yields as much as 5-8 percent compared to a conventional system.

SLPG Director Business Development Dhiren Kundanmal said this about the project. “We are extremely proud and honoured to be selected as a partner with Expolanka Holdings PLC to assist it in its sustainability drive. It’s another great addition in our long line of prestigious corporates that have selected SLPG to be their partner of choice. We are focused on assisting these corporates on their mission to reducing greenhouse gases and to help Sri Lanka to reduce its dependency on importation of fossil fuels such as coal and diesel, especially during our current dollar crisis.”