Track record · Vietnam · Cambodia · Philippines · 2017–2026

Nine years building and operating C&I renewables across the region.

The projects below were led by Rob Santler in three successive leadership roles — GM of SPUC (Vietnam Solar Power, founded 2017 in joint venture with Dragon Capital), GM Vietnam & Cambodia at BECIS following its acquisition of SPUC in 2021, and CEO of CN Green Roof Asia through to March 2026. They are not Arcus Energy customer references. They are the operating record that informs the advisory work Arcus does today.

~80 MWp Vietnam C&I rooftop solar across 15 provinces (Green Roof era)
$80M renewable platform managed across Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines
9 yrs continuous Vietnam C&I solar operating record from 2017
4 countries Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines under direct remit
Operating C&I solar across Vietnamese rooftops, 2017–2026
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Suggested: a wide rooftop solar shot from a Vietnamese site visit. Owns-rights priority — your own photography, not a stock or BECIS/Green Roof image.

Honest framing matters. Customer relationships sit with the prior employer, not with Rob personally — and not with Arcus. This page documents projects led during prior roles, not active references for current Arcus engagements. The credibility transfers; the contracts don't. That distinction is on the table from the first conversation.

Institutional contexts · 2004 – 2026 Capital sources · backers · partner platforms
Citibank
Citibank
Dragon Capital
Dragon Capital
Berkeley Energy
Berkeley Energy
FMO
FMO
Siemens Financial Services
Siemens Financial Services
Norfund
Norfund
Climate Fund Managers
Climate Fund Managers
UK Prosperity Fund
UK Prosperity Fund
British Embassy / FCDO
British Embassy
Citibank early career, 2004–2014 · Dragon Capital SPUC JV partner, 2017 · Berkeley Energy + FMO + Siemens Financial Services BECIS shareholders, 2021–2023 · Norfund + Climate Fund Managers Green Roof investors, 2023–2026 · UK Prosperity Fund + British Embassy Coats Phong Phu launch backing, 2019 Marks shown reflect the institutional contexts within which the platforms above operated — capital sponsors, joint-venture partners, government programmes that backed specific launches. They are not endorsements of Arcus Energy, and Arcus carries no current commercial relationship with any of them in this advisory capacity.
Career arc

Three platforms, one continuous Vietnam C&I solar story.

Each role brought a different lens — pioneer-stage development at SPUC, multinational operator scale at BECIS, institutional-grade portfolio management at Green Roof. The thread across all three: hands-on operating leadership, not advisory.

2017 — 2021

SPUC · Vietnam Solar Power

General Manager · Founder

Joint venture with Dragon Capital — Vietnam's first dedicated C&I solar developer. Built the Zero Capex PPA model from scratch in a market that didn't yet have a regulatory framework for it. First commissioned project (Coats Phong Phu, 500 kWp HCMC) opened with the British Ambassador in attendance, backed by the UK Prosperity Fund's Solar Hub initiative. Acquired by BECIS in 2021.

2021 — 2023

BECIS Vietnam & Cambodia

General Manager

Continued the SPUC platform under the BECIS group (Berkeley Energy Commercial Industrial Solutions, Singapore-headquartered, backed by Berkeley Energy / FMO / Siemens FS). Scaled the Vietnam C&I solar book and opened Cambodia operations. Cambodia debut project: Heineken biomass plant at the Phnom Penh brewery — Cambodia's largest at commissioning, $5.8M, 17,000 tCO₂/yr avoided.

2023 — March 2026

CN Green Roof Asia

Chief Executive Officer

Norfund- and Climate Fund Managers-backed C&I solar platform. ~$80M of installed and committed assets across Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Strategic De Heus / Proconco multi-site MOU signed 2023. 22.785 MWp Solana Solar Beta ground-mount in Bataan, Philippines, broke ground April 2025. Departed CEO role March 2026 to found Arcus Energy as independent advisory.

Flagship projects

Five projects that define the operating record.

Selected for what each one represents — the first Zero Capex deal in Vietnam, the largest biomass plant ever built in Cambodia, the multi-site MNC PPA template, the Korean MNC chemicals deal that survived a complex grid-connection negotiation, and the institutional-grade ground-mount asset in the Philippines. Different countries, different technologies, different scales — same underwriting discipline.

Coats Phong Phu rooftop solar installation, HCMC, 2019
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First SPUC Zero Capex project · 2019

Coats Phong Phu — proving Zero Capex worked in Vietnam.

The first commissioned project under SPUC's Zero Capex PPA model, in District 9, Ho Chi Minh City. The 500 kWp Phase 1 system feeds the Coats Phong Phu thread factory under a long-term PPA at a price competitive with EVN's retail tariff — the customer pays nothing upfront, SPUC owns and operates the system, electricity is sold via the PPA.

The project carried strategic weight beyond its size. It was supported by the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office's Prosperity Fund through the Supporting Southern Vietnam Solar Photovoltaic Development (Solar Hub) initiative — a UK government-Dragon Capital partnership backing the first wave of Vietnamese C&I solar. The launch event in District 9 was attended by the British Ambassador to Vietnam. For SPUC, it set the template that the whole platform was built on. For the Vietnamese market, it was one of the first credible Zero Capex deals.

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De Heus / Proconco multi-site solar rollout, Vietnam, 2023 onwards
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Strategic multi-site portfolio · 2023 MOU onwards

De Heus / Proconco — the multi-site MNC PPA template.

De Heus is a Dutch global animal-feed leader operating production facilities in over 90 countries, with 16 feed mills across Vietnam under the De Heus, Windmill, Koudijs, Proconco, and Anco brands. In 2023, Green Roof and De Heus signed a strategic MOU committing to a multi-site rooftop solar rollout across the Vietnamese portfolio.

Each commissioned site offsets approximately 20–30% of daily energy needs against the factory's grid demand. Across the planned portfolio, the rollout produces more than 15 million kWh of clean energy per year and avoids more than 5,900 tonnes of CO₂ annually. The Proconco Binh Dinh site went into construction in 2025; sister sites continue in sequence. The structure became a reference template for how to do rolling MNC engagements in Vietnam — single MOU at the group level, project-by-project execution at the facility level, consistent technical and commercial terms across the portfolio.

"By managing the entire project cycle — from initial investment and installation to operation and maintenance — we enable our esteemed client to maximise their usage of clean energy in production with no capital outlay." — Rob Santler, then CEO of Green Roof Asia, public statement at De Heus partnership signing.

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Lotte Chemical Vietnam rooftop solar installation
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Korean MNC chemicals · BECIS Vietnam

Lotte Chemical Vietnam — solving the grid-connection knot.

Lotte Chemical is the petrochemicals arm of Korean conglomerate Lotte Group, with operations across Asia. The Vietnamese facility was targeting reduced electricity cost, progress toward Lotte's net-zero target, and a Green certificate for the site. BECIS was selected to deliver an onsite rooftop solar system under a long-term service agreement.

The technical scope was straightforward: a 917 kWp rooftop installation cutting 943.69 tonnes of CO₂ per year. The harder part — the part that defined the engagement — was the grid connection. After contract signing, securing connection approval from the local Department of Industry and Trade required engagement that BECIS led directly. Approval came through; the system was commissioned; the customer captured the planned cost reduction and emissions savings. The lesson generalises: in Vietnamese C&I solar, the technical work is rarely what makes or breaks a deal — it's the regulatory and counterparty engagement around it.

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Heineken Cambodia biomass plant, Phnom Penh, 2022 inauguration
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Cambodia's largest biomass plant · BECIS

Heineken Cambodia biomass — opening BECIS Cambodia.

BECIS Cambodia's first project, and Cambodia's largest biomass power plant at commissioning. Located at Heineken's Phnom Penh brewery in Chbar Ampov district, the facility burns approximately 45 tonnes of rice husk per day — sourced from Prey Veng province — to generate steam supplying the brewery's full thermal load. The output enables Heineken Cambodia to reach 100% renewable thermal energy for its production site, cutting brewery CO₂ emissions by 60% (~17,000 tonnes per year).

The project was admitted as a Qualified Investment Project by Cambodia's Council for the Development of Cambodia, broke ground on 8 December 2021, and was inaugurated on 22 September 2022 in front of Heineken Group Chairman & CEO Dolf van den Brink and the Cambodian Minister of Environment. The General Manager remit covering BECIS Vietnam and Cambodia sat with Rob Santler; country delivery on the ground in Cambodia was led by Neil Allen as BECIS Cambodia Country Manager. Both attribution lines hold; neither erases the other.

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Solana Solar Beta 22.785 MWp ground-mount solar plant, Bataan, Philippines
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Institutional ground-mount, Philippines · Green Roof CEO

Solana Solar Beta (Hermosa) — institutional-grade utility solar.

Green Roof Asia's flagship Philippine ground-mount asset: a 22.785 MWp solar plant in Barangay Balsik, Hermosa, Bataan, developed by Green Roof Philippines via SPV Solana Solar Beta Inc. Backed by Climate Fund Managers and Norfund, the project broke ground on 11 April 2025 with construction commencing 11 July 2025 and reached Commercial Operation in April 2026.

The project sits at a different scale and structure from the Vietnamese rooftop portfolio — utility ground-mount rather than C&I rooftop, equity-financed by climate-focused institutional capital rather than Zero Capex C&I PPA, with a structured ESG envelope including formal public consultation, biodiversity protection (Narra tree earth-balling and relocation), and a Community Development Programme delivering Solar-Powered Irrigation Systems to local farmer associations. It demonstrates the operational discipline required to deliver an institutional-grade asset against IFC-aligned ES&HS standards in a developing-market context — discipline that translates directly into the Vietnamese C&I work where international financing increasingly demands the same envelope.

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Sectors served · 2017 – 2026

Counterparty quality across the portfolio.

Korean MNC chemicals Dutch global feed Global brewing major Korean global garment Sustainable retail packaging Vietnamese textile thread mfg Philippine institutional ground-mount
Additional named projects

Two more BECIS Vietnam deliveries worth naming.

Listed for breadth rather than full deep-dive treatment. Both completed under the BECIS Vietnam & Cambodia GM remit.

Hansoll Textile Vietnam rooftop solar — Unisoll Vina or Global Dyeing facility
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FMCG · garment manufacturing · Vietnam

Hansoll Textile — twin-site rooftop rollout.

Two large-scale rooftop solar systems at Hansoll's two largest Vietnamese facilities — Unisoll Vina and Global Dyeing. Designed at approximately 4 MWp each (~8 MWp total), with energy modelling tuned to maximise self-consumption against minimal grid export — the customer's specific request given Decree 58 surplus-export economics at the time. In-house BECIS design and project management delivered both systems against Hansoll's net-zero trajectory.

~8 MWp combined · self-consumption-optimised · BECIS in-house design
Mainetti Vietnam Dong Nai plant rooftop solar with skylight-aware layout
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Commercial · packaging · Vietnam (Dong Nai)

Mainetti Vietnam — Lotus Gold Certification path.

Mainetti is the world's leading supplier of sustainable retail packaging solutions, committed to net zero. The Dong Nai plant targeted Lotus Gold green-building certification, with rooftop solar as a key component. The build presented structural challenges — an aged roof requiring reinforcement, and multiple skylights that had to remain uncovered to preserve natural lighting in the warehouse. The delivered solution included roof reinforcement, skylight-aware layout, walkways and lifelines for safe ongoing access, and an estimated 14,150 tCO₂e emissions reduction by 2030.

Lotus Gold pathway · ~14,150 tCO₂e by 2030 · structural & access engineering
Vietnam portfolio breadth

~80 MWp of Vietnam rooftop solar across 15 provinces.

During the Green Roof CEO tenure, the Vietnamese rooftop solar portfolio reached a national footprint across northern, central, and southern provinces. Sites range from sub-megawatt installations on logistics warehouses to multi-megawatt deployments on industrial campuses.

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Provincial coverage map (Green Roof Vietnam, by capacity)

~64.6 MWp · 15 provinces · 2023–2026
Dong Nai16.8 MWp
Hai Phong14.0 MWp
Binh Duong11.0 MWp
Thai Binh6.6 MWp
Ba Ria-Vung Tau4.0 MWp
Nam Dinh3.5 MWp
Bac Giang2.4 MWp
Vinh Phuc1.5 MWp
Long An1.3 MWp
Tay Ninh1.1 MWp
Thanh Hoa1.0 MWp
Ha Nam0.6 MWp
Binh Phuoc0.5 MWp
Tra Vinh0.5 MWp
Quang Ninh0.4 MWp

Capacities reflect Green Roof Asia's published Vietnam featured-projects map as at 2026. The full Green Roof platform spans Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines; figures here are Vietnam-only. Asset ownership remains with CN Green Roof Asia.

What this page is and isn't

A track record, not a portfolio of current Arcus engagements.

The credibility transfers. The contracts don't.

The projects above were delivered by SPUC, BECIS Vietnam & Cambodia, and CN Green Roof Asia — three separate entities, with three separate sets of customer contracts, lender covenants, and ongoing operations and maintenance obligations. Those relationships sit with the prior platforms, not with Arcus and not with Rob personally. The Coats Phong Phu PPA is still operated by BECIS Vietnam (which acquired SPUC in 2021). The De Heus portfolio sits with Green Roof. The Heineken Cambodia biomass plant runs under BECIS Cambodia's O&M.

What does transfer is the operating background — every line item in a Vietnamese C&I solar or BESS model has been in front of a credit committee, an EPC contractor, an EVN connection desk, an offtaker's CFO, or a Norfund investment team at some point in the last nine years. That fluency is what Arcus's advisory work is built on. None of the projects above are referenced here as customer endorsements of Arcus — they're referenced as the operating record that informs the work.

Where a current Arcus engagement reaches commercial close with a publishable customer reference, that case study will be added separately and clearly distinguished from the prior-role track record on this page.

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The advisory work is built on what's on this page. If your project would benefit from that operating background, let's talk.

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