Solar Power Plant Inaugurated in the State of São Paulo with a Generation Capacity of 1 MW

Sabesp – Basic Sanitation Company of the State of São Paulo Inaugurated a New Solar Power Plant Yesterday

Sabesp – Basic Sanitation Company of the State of São Paulo inaugurated the first photovoltaic plant of the company’s distributed generation plan in Orindiúva. The solar plant has a capacity of 1 megawatt (MW) and an annual energy generation potential of 1.9 million kilowatt-hours (kWh). This amount is enough to supply 780 homes, accounting for 44% of the municipality in the state’s interior.

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Marcos Penido, State Secretary of Infrastructure and Environment, said that “Today, with this example of the photovoltaic plant, we are working within the renewal of our energy matrix, bringing renewable energy, clean energy, generating less pollution, less carbon emissions, and providing efficiency in public spending.”

The energy produced at the Orindiúva plant will be used to offset the electricity consumption credits of Sabesp’s water and sewage treatment stations in the city and in six other municipalities in the region. The high local solar radiation rate, with an average of over 5.0 kWh/m²/day per year, is one of the positive factors that made this project possible.

The CEO of Sabesp, Benedito Braga, stated that “This process of distributed energy through photovoltaic plants is something absolutely innovative that Sabesp brings to the sanitation market. A very interesting solution from both an environmental and an economic perspective. Sabesp works with innovation, cares about the environment, governance, and social issues.”

Alceu Segamarchi Junior, Director of Technology, Projects, and Environment at Sabesp, affirmed that “This only reinforces Sabesp’s commitment to the environment and further innovates in this regard. Sabesp, which is the first sanitation company in Brazil and one of the largest in the world, is certainly the first in innovation, in investment in alternative sources of clean energy.”