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EDP completed its floating solar plant in Portugal, capable of generating 7,5 GWh per year. The development has 12 solar panels, serving 30% of the region's population.
A EDP inaugurated, in the south of Portugal, more precisely in Alqueva, what may be the largest floating solar plant project installed in a European hydroelectric reservoir. With about 12 thousand panels occupying 4 hectares, equivalent to 0,016% of the total area of the lake, EDP's new solar panel platform has 5 MW of power and capacity to produce about 7,5 GWh per year, being able to supply more than 30 % of families in the region of Portel Moura and Moura.
EDP's floating solar plant has 12 solar panels
The platform that supports painéis solares it is made from recycled plastic combined with cork composites, reducing the weight of the platform by 15%, in addition to boosting the mitigation of the project's CO₂ generation by around 30%.
In total, EDP installed 12 solar panels in its floating solar plant, with a power of 5 MW and capacity to produce around 7,5 GWh per year, which is equivalent to the consumption of about a third of families in the region. The platform, which has an area of four hectares, was inaugurated last Friday (15).
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this is the second floating solar plant built in Portugal, following EDP's pilot project on the Alto Rabagão dam. The solution, which is being tested for the first time, is the result of a partnership with Corticeira Amorim and Isi Genere, the Spanish company responsible for manufacturing the float. The installation of a battery system is also planned, with a nominal power of 1 MW and a storage capacity of approximately 2 MWh.
EDP plans to invest in innovation and totally clean technologies
The company's technologies will use a single point of connection to the existing network, promoting optimization and efficiency of assets, reducing environmental impacts.
The projects make up EDP's plan to invest in innovation and completely clean renewable technologies by 2030. According to the CEO of EDP Renováveis, Miguel Stilwell d'Andrade, floating solar technology, in which EDP is a global pioneer, is a notable advance in expansion of renewable energies and the promotion of the decarbonisation process.
According to the executive, the hybridization strategy, combining water, wind and solar energy, is the path for the group's investments in energy. According to the CEO of EDP, Alqueva is currently an example of innovation and sustainability that the company will soon reinforce with the new project won in the first floating solar power plant auction in Portugal.
Company plans to build more than 60 solar plants
Recently, EDP announced a global partnership to build up to 100 MWp of solar energy in units of Faurecia, a company of the Forvia group, in Asia, the United States and Europe.
The company's projection is to build, by the end of next year, more than 60 solar energy parks for self-consumption at the multinational's factories in Portugal, Italy, Spain, United States, South Korea, China, Japan and Thailand.
The parks must add up to 200 thousand solar panels, in the Energy as a Service (EaaS), where the consumer pays for an energy service without having to invest in an infrastructure.
The project is the company's biggest undertaking when it comes to distributed solar energy, and the first to be installed with the same partner on different continents at the same time.
