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Companhia Energética de Pernambuco (Celpe) should start this year the project to implement a solar power plant at the Hospital da Mulher de Recife (HMR).
CELPE's solar power plant will have five systems of 60 kilowatt peak (kWp) and two of 10kWp, totaling an installed capacity of 320kWp. The generation is expected to promote annual savings of 536,7 megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity.
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Developed by the Secretariat for the Environment and Sustainability and the Instituto da Cidade Pelópidas Silveira, the Recife City of Energy Efficiency project aims to install photovoltaic solar panels in public equipment in the areas of health, education, sports and in the City Hall headquarters building.
The Women's Hospital was chosen as a pilot to represent the municipal model of energy efficiency and coping with climate change, becoming self-sufficient in electricity.
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No HMR, the installation of the equipment will provide a significant capacity to reduce around 7.000 tCO2e emitted by the municipality. This type of energy is considered clean, as it does not release, during its production or consumption process, waste or polluting gases that generate the greenhouse effect and global warming.
“The challenge of the climate crisis and the issue of sustainability has always been something that we have posed very decisively. This is an agenda that has to bring everyone together, government, private initiative and society, so the City Hall was able to approve the project with ICLEI and international bodies and now it gets off the ground with the support of CELPE. Sustainability is an urgent matter and we will continue to advance in this area”, said Mayor João Campos.
Celpe justifies the choice of the Hospital for the implementation of a solar power plant
The works for the installation of the 725 modules of 440Wp of the solar power plant should start later this week.
The concessionaire's intention is to deliver the plant ready and running to the City Hall of Recife by the end of May.
“Celpe decided to install the plant at the Women's Hospital because it understands that the institution performs important work for the health and well-being of women in the city and neighboring municipalities. In addition to providing savings on the electricity bill, the HMR will start consuming electricity from a clean source, thus contributing to the preservation of the environment”, said Celpe's president, Saulo Cabral.
