A Sabesp – Companhia de Saneamento ******* do Estado de São Paulo, inaugurou ontem uma nova usina de energia solar

A Sabesp – Companhia de Saneamento ******* do Estado de São Paulo, inaugurou em Orindiúva a primeira usina fotovoltaica do plano de geração distribuída da empresa. A usina solar tem capacidade de 1 megawatt (MW) e potencial anual de geração de energia de 1,9 milhão de quilowatts-hora (kWh). Esse montante é suficiente para abastecer 780 casas, respondendo por 44% do município do interior do estado.

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

The energy produced at the Orindiúva plant will be used to offset credits for the consumption of electricity at Sabesp's water and sewage treatment plants in the city and six other municipalities in the region. The high rate of local solar radiation, averaging over 5,0 kWh / m² / day per year, is one of the positive factors that made this project possible.

Sabesp's CEO, Benedito Braga, said that “This process of energy distributed through photovoltaic plants is something absolutely innovative that Sabesp brings to the sanitation market. A very interesting solution both from an environmental and an economic point of view. Sabesp works with innovation, works with environmental concern, with concern for governance and with the social question”.

Alceu Segamarchi Junior, director of Technology, Enterprises and Environment at Sabesp, stated that “This only reinforces Sabesp's commitment to the environment and innovates even more 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”.