With its high solar irradiance, utilising just 0.071% of the country's area for solar PV power generation could meet Pakistan's current electricity demand.

Prism Energy — an InfraCo Asia-Albario Engineering (AEPL) joint venture, de-risks the development of distributed solar projects in Pakistan by introducing international best practice at each stage of development and implementation.

Coupled with proven models of offtake agreements, Prism aims to

demonstrate the viability of developing commercial and industrial (C&I) solar plants to world-class standards in Pakistan.

The Prism team recently brought into operations a 248kW distributed solar facility in Faisalabad, and is currently working on several larger-scale projects (of up to 5MW) in the pipeline.

Read our recent media release, learn more about the Pakistan Rooftop Solar project, and watch our project film. 

From the smallholder farmers of Cambodia's Kampong Speu Province to supermarket shelves – the second shipment of mangoes from InfraCo Asia’s agri-infrastructure project arrived in Singapore earlier this year.

The mango processing facility, developed through Infunde Development, will be the first commercial-scale mango export business in Cambodia. The project aims to improve the access of Cambodia’s smallholder mango farmers to international markets, building a

national brand for the fruit and increasing revenues from the local produce in the process. To learn more, watch the Angkor Harvest film and read the Cambodia Mangoes Processing Facility profile.

Gender equity and empowerment are key focus areas for infrastructure investment and development at PIDG.

Across the PIDG companies, our project partners took centre stage as part of our #ChoosetoChallenge campaign this year.

Nessia Marthalia, Head of Product at Net1 Indonesia shared, "Many infrastructure projects are still gender-blind by design, and this fails to recognise the different impacts of infrastructure on women. More can be done to improve women and girls' access to better economic opportunities, and to promote inclusive infrastructure."

Follow the PIDG LinkedIn page to hear from more project partners, including Heather Tan, Director of Corporate Affairs at Darco Water Technologies.

InfraCo Asia's Genevie Yeo and Sharyn Bow, who serve as the team's focal point for Development Impact and Gender Champion respectively, were featured on IPFA's International Women's Day Campaign for their leadership and initiative in driving our Gender taskforce.

Read about the PIDG Gender Ambition Framework, the Gender Equity Action Plan 2021 and, crucially, what we are doing to safeguard women and girls from gender-based violence and harassment in PIDG investments and operations.

Sector Deep Dive with InfraAsia:  Waste Management

Many local municipalities across Southeast Asia currently collect and dispose waste at landfills. However, there have been growing calls to use more sustainable and non-pollutive waste management solutions, including waste-to-energy, refuse-derived fuel, anaerobic digestion and biogas. 

InfraCo Asia CEO Allard Nooy recently participated in a deep dive session organised by Infrastructure Asia, and joined other industry

experts to discuss key challenges and opportunities for the waste management sector in Asia. Access insights from the session in this article.

Join us at IJ Asia 2021

InfraCo Asia's General Counsel Jeremy Saw will feature on the panel 'Vietnam energy - evaluating opportunities in power and renewables', on Day 2 of the IJ Asia 2021 conference, to be held from 19 to 20 May.

Register here for complimentary access.

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