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EDP Renewables has commenced operations on the 202 MW Cerca photo voltaic plant within the Portuguese municipalities of Alenquer and Azambuja.
The plant options greater than 310,000 bifacial photo voltaic panels, able to absorbing photo voltaic vitality from either side. EDP Renewables stated this maximizes its conversion into renewable electrical energy.
The challenge can energy almost 100,000 households, or roughly 1% of the Portuguese inhabitants. It’s anticipated to stop the emission of 170,000 tons of CO2 per yr.
The Cerca plant is EDP Renewables’ largest photo voltaic plant in Europe to this point and takes the corporate’s quantity of owned photo voltaic in Portugal to 540 MWp.
EDP Renewables Chief Working Officer for Europe Duarte Bello stated that the corporate is “dozens of latest photo voltaic initiatives” that can make a “important contribution” to the vitality transition.
EDP Renewables has set a goal of commissioning a further 1 GW of renewable vitality in Portugal by 2026. It estimates that by 2026, half of its international investments might be in large-scale photo voltaic initiatives and decentralized technology.
In February, EDP Renewables commissioned Portugal’s second solar-wind hybrid challenge, after commissioning the nation’s first at first of final yr.
The European Fee just lately authorized a €350 million ($379.4 million) Portuguese grant scheme for the manufacturing of apparatus for renewable vitality, to assist the nation’s transition to a net-zero economic system.
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