The New Zealand Creamery project is one of the most recognised commercial solar installations in the Philippines. Completed at a large dairy processing facility within Carmelray Industrial Park I in Calamba, Laguna, the 2.16 MWp rooftop system was named Solar Power Project of the Year – Philippines at the Asian Power Awards 2019. See Solaren’s full industry recognition here.

Dairy processing plants operate across a wide range of system voltages, driven by the demands of refrigeration, production machinery, and continuous processing loads. Integrating a 2 MWp solar system into that environment required careful load analysis, precise inverter configuration, and close coordination with the facility’s existing electrical infrastructure – all on a working industrial site with no tolerance for operational disruption.

Solaren designed and installed the full system using in-house registered electrical engineers, built to Philippine Electrical Code standards. High-efficiency SMA inverters were specified and deployed in partnership with PROINSO. Every element of the installation was planned to complement the plant’s load profile without requiring modifications to existing equipment.

The system produces millions of kilowatt-hours annually, offsetting a significant portion of the facility’s daytime grid consumption. The Creamery has stabilised its energy costs and reduced its exposure to rising electricity tariffs- a material advantage for any high-consumption industrial operation in the Philippines.

The project remains a benchmark reference for industrial solar adoption in Philippine food manufacturing.