Sustainno Signs Three-Party MoU with Camaroe Berhad and Huawei to Bring Off-Grid Power to Malaysian Aquaculture
Sustainno Signs Three-Party MoU with Camaroe Berhad and Huawei to Bring Off-Grid Power to Malaysian Aquaculture
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Pictured after the MoU signing ceremony, from left: Mr. Vince Chua, Business Development Director, and Mr. Lau Tzeh Wei, Founder and Technical Director, both of Sustainno Sdn Bhd; Ms. Low Saw Cheng, Executive Director, and Mr. Teoh Han Boon, Managing Director, both of Camaroe Berhad; Mr. Chong Chern Peng, Executive Vice President, Malaysia Digital Power Business Department, and Mr. Damon Leong, Director, Malaysia Digital Power Marketing and Solution Sales Department, both of Huawei Malaysia.
20 August 2026 · Huawei TRX Innovation Centre, Kuala Lumpur
Sustainno Sdn Bhd has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Camaroe Berhad and Huawei Technologies (Malaysia), under which Sustainno becomes Camaroe's new energy strategic partner for its aquaculture operations.
Under the MoU, Sustainno will design, build and commission off-grid power systems for Camaroe's farms — solar generation, battery energy storage, and a small generator held in reserve. Huawei provides the Smart PV and energy storage technology. Camaroe brings the operating knowledge of the farm itself.
The partnership addresses a constraint that has held back aquaculture growth in Malaysia for years. The best sites for shrimp are quiet, coastal and remote — which also places them far from the grid. Extending a line to such a site can cost hundreds of thousands of ringgit and take one to two years. Until now, the alternative has been diesel.
That calculation has changed. IRENA reports that the installed cost of utility-scale solar is 87 percent lower than in 2010, and BloombergNEF puts the fall in lithium battery prices at 93 percent. Solar paired with storage can now be delivered in months rather than years, at a cost of energy that is known for the next twenty years.
The systems will include a digital energy twin, allowing farm operators to monitor every aerator remotely and to be alerted when equipment begins to behave abnormally — before it fails. For a shrimp pond, this is not a convenience. When aeration stops, dissolved oxygen falls within minutes, and the loss is not the electricity bill but the entire crop cycle.
“Ten years ago, off-grid was what you did when there was no other choice. With today's solar and battery costs, it is often the better choice — built in months instead of years, and with a cost of energy that is known for the next twenty years,” said Lau Tzeh Wei, Founder and Technical Director of Sustainno Sdn Bhd.
Sustainno was founded in 2016 and holds CIDB Grade 7 contractor status, SEDA Registered PV Service Provider (RPVSP) and Registered Solar PV Investor (RPVI) registration. The company designed and built the off-grid photovoltaic laboratory at SHRDC, the Selangor Human Resource Development Centre, where Malaysia's off-grid solar engineers and technicians are trained.
Sustainno also owns and operates solar plants of its own, and runs an in-house research and development programme in solar tracking control, developing its own controller and software.
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