CleanTech Global Renewables Inc. hopes to issue a notice to proceed (NTP) by the end of the year for a 180 MW ground-mounted solar farm in Pangasinan, Philippines, a project insider told NPM.

Before that can happen it needs to receive a tree cutting permit from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), the source said.

That will be the last environmental approval before it can issue the NTP, expected by Q4.

The Philippines-based developer is also in the final stretch of negotiations with a local engineering, procurement, and construction company.

The solar farm will be located in Infanta, Pangasinan in northern Luzon.

It is being developed under CleanTech subsidiary, Tera Renewables 3 Corp.

The sponsor is understood to have already secured a land agreement for Phase 2, which will double the project’s capacity to around 360 MW.

CleanTech is now primarily focusing on solar and onshore wind projects after exiting its offshore wind venture with Singapore-based The Blue Circle last year.

CleanTech declined to comment.