Robintex Choose Solar Power From Mahindra Susten For Its Textiles Sustainability Programme

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Robintex Group, a Germany-Bangladesh Joint venture, has internationally been renowned for its continual accomplishment in exporting quality knit apparels to the international markets from its Dhaka factory.

As a Disney approved supplier, sustainability has always been high on its agenda, with extensive investments in water saving cold-pad-batch dyeing leading the way.

Yet this week is has announced a major step forward in its sustainability programme, with the purchase of a 3.1 MW rooftop solar array to be installed by Indian company Mahindra Susten.

Mahindra Susten will provide engineering, procurement and construction services on the $1.7m, 3.1 MW array for the German-Bangladeshi knitwear company which will buy the power generated for $0.077/kWh in a deal financed by locally based Joules Power.

The installation will provide a clean and totally independent and renewable source of electricity for this textile concern, historically a large consumer of grid power.

The construction of what will become Bangladesh's largest industrial photovoltaic (PV) plant will be made possible through a 20-year power purchase agreement signed at the start of March.

The solar panels will be mounted on the roofs of several of Robintex’s manufacturing facilities in Rupganj, Narayanganj district.

They will span a total area of 32,886 sq m.

The power plant will be put on stream in fiscal 2020/21.