Solar on every roof, BOI solar correction, open source section
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Solar (user, 17 Oct 2026: "use as much roof space as possible") - PV on every roof and canopy: ~640 kWp on the Payap scenario plot (factory roof ~523, canopies ~54, flat office roof ~65 kWp around the AC units); ~300 kWp on the Mueang Chi hall. Calculator: pvKWp 640, new pvSelf 85 % (zero export, hourly sketch), PV cost per kWp times the array, office-roof PV in the iso view, roofs drawn full. - 12.8M to 16.6M THB at 20 to 26 THB/W; CSV baseline 34.37M to 56.34M; launch plant ~168M / 231M / 294M THB with contingency; Plan B ~216M (label ~215M), ~39M above Plan A; Plan A unchanged (it leases the array), its solar lever ~17.5M. PV payback ~4.2 to 5.9 years. - Permits (rooftop solar no factory licence since 28 Dec 2024, ERC exemption under 1,000 kVA, PEA zero export) and PPA discounts sourced in sustainability.md. BOI correction - Announcement 3/2568 (in force 1 July 2025) ended BOI promotion for solar installations; only the battery may qualify (12M THB per MW cap). Removed the "BOI solar measure" from boi.md, total-investment, revenue-model, sustainability, site-candidates and both plan versions; Plan B's case for owning the array is the PPA bill it avoids (~0.07M USD a year). Open source (user, 17 Oct 2026) - digital-factory.md "Open source throughout, and working with other plants": everything we run and build is open source on NixOS, our code published (licence to decide), vendor firmware the stated exception; later the stack and factory-automation services for other pressing plants, not in the revenue. - Business plan section 5.6 plus an executive-summary bullet, reading guide and not-modelled mentions; draft 0.3 rebuilt (A 60, B 61 pages), renders re-made with the roofs full.
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@@ -47,8 +47,10 @@ process cooling (up to ~650 kW), drawn in [steam and cooling](steam-cooling.html
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[facility systems](facility-security.md)) adds a major tropical-climate
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load on top of process cooling and must be part of the PV and battery
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sizing.
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- System sizing (kWp, storage, grid-connection model) is open until the site
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is chosen.
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- **Array size, decided 17 October 2026: every roof and canopy carries PV**
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("use as much roof space as possible"), so the kWp follows the site:
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~640 kWp on the Payap scenario plot, ~300 kWp on the Mueang Chi hall
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(below). Storage beyond the 271 kWh ride-through battery stays open.
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### Roof design for PV (candidate Mueang Chi site)
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@@ -108,8 +110,49 @@ the electric-boiler route is chosen.
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On the Payap scenario plot the 128 m factory roof takes ~901 modules
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(~523 kWp) and the car and scooter canopies another ~54 kWp, ~577 kWp in
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all; what that size means for export, the battery and BOI is in
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[site candidates](site-candidates.md#roof-pv-and-parking-canopies-part-and-draft-model-october-2026).
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all ([site candidates](site-candidates.md#roof-pv-and-parking-canopies-part-and-draft-model-october-2026)).
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The flat office roof adds ~65 kWp around its three AC units (estimate
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from the [calculator](fleet-calculator.html) drawing), so covering every
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roof and canopy gives **~640 kWp**, the size the investment and both
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business plan versions carry since 17 October 2026. On the Mueang Chi
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hall the same rule gives only ~300 kWp (the 247 kWp roof above plus the
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canopies); more there means ground mount on the plot behind the building
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or the phase 2 roof.
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**What ~640 kWp means on the grid** (October 2026):
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- **Zero export.** A factory on PEA's grid cannot sell its surplus: the
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interconnection needs a zero-export controller or reverse-power relay,
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and net billing is limited to small users
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([CapSolar, rooftop solar regulations 2026](https://capsolar.co.th/en/knowledge/rooftop-solar-regulations-thailand)).
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An hourly sketch (two shifts on 300 days, ~60 kW off-shift base load,
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the 271 kWh battery; estimate) puts **~85 % of the ~900 MWh yield to
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use on site**; the rest, mostly on Sundays and holidays, is curtailed.
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With electric steam the launch plant draws ~2,000 MWh a year, so the
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array covers ~38 % of it.
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- **Permits.** Since Ministerial Regulation No. 3 B.E. 2567 (in force
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28 December 2024) rooftop solar outside industrial estates is not a
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factory at any size, so no Ror.Ngor.4 licence; at ~500 kVA of inverters
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the array stays under the ERC's 1,000 kVA line and needs an exemption
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notification, not a generation licence; PEA's interconnection review
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takes 3 to 6 months and is filed alongside procurement
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([CapSolar, factory solar and the RG.4 permit](https://capsolar.co.th/en/knowledge/factory-solar-rg4-permit-thailand)).
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Ground mount is not covered by the rooftop exemption and is checked
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case by case.
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- **No BOI benefit for the panels.** Since 1 July 2025 (Announcement
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3/2568) the BOI no longer promotes solar installations; the battery and
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its inverters may still qualify, capped at 12M THB per MW
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([BOI](boi.md)). The array is justified by the bill alone.
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- **Leasing instead (Plan A).** Under a solar PPA the developer funds,
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installs and maintains the array and sells its power at a discount to
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the PEA tariff: usually 10 to 15 % over 15 to 20 years at MEAei
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([MEAei](https://meaei.com/en/best-solar-rooftop-businesses-thailand)),
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10 to 30 % over 15 to 25 years for bills of 100,000 THB a month and up
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at CapSolar ([CapSolar PPA](https://capsolar.co.th/en/services/ppa)).
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The calculator's 3.0 THB/kWh is ~21 % below the ~3.8 THB/kWh blended
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rate, inside CapSolar's range but above MEAei's usual discount (estimate,
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to quote); the launch plant's bill (~0.75M THB a month before solar, calculator)
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clears the threshold.
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### Energy efficiency architecture: recover before generating
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@@ -252,7 +295,10 @@ not a cost one.
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(weekday daytime at the peak rate, weekends and early mornings at
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off-peak, Ft included), so the 247 kWp roof saves ~1.2M to 1.3M THB a year
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and pays back in **~3.8 to 5.4 years** at 20,000 to 26,000 THB/kWp
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installed (estimate; Thai market prices checked October 2026 in the
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installed. The full ~640 kWp array uses ~85 % of its yield on site, saves
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~2.8M to 3.0M THB a year and pays back in **~4.2 to 5.9 years**; the
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last ~340 kWp, more of whose yield is curtailed, take ~4.9 to 6.3 years
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(estimates; Thai market prices checked October 2026 in the
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[utilities CSV](finance/utilities-investment.csv): DEDE's PV status report
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gives 22 to 25 THB/W for factory systems of 10 kW to 1 MW in 2023,
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installers quote 18 to 25 THB/W in 2026). It does not lower the demand charge, because the peak window
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