PORTUGAL PIONEER IN PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS ON WATER

Portugal became the first country to build a hidro-solar energy factory. In the Alto Rabagão Dam were installed 840 floating photovoltaic panels, increasing its peak capacity to 220 KW, which leverages the existing infrastructure in the dam, such as transformers, electric frames and connecting to the electrical network, for the disposal of the annual production.

The project is expected to generate 332 megawatts-hour in the first year, which amounts to enough energy to supply 100 houses for a year.

This project aims to analyze the economic feasibility of the solution, “study the functioning, exploitation and exploitation results of this solution and, at larger scale, reaching competing values with traditional solutions on the ground”, said in January to Lusa Agency, Paulo Pinto, project manager.

According to Paulo Pinto, this project has several advantages, from reducing costs to the use of existing infrastructure, reducing the environmental impact that the creation of a new solar park would bring. This project is a partnership between EDP Production, EDP Distribution and EDP Renewable and the investment was supported by the company. In the case of this solar-hydro-electric project being fully functioning and feasible, EDP can replicate it in other dams.

 

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Source:
https://www.publico.pt/2017/01/21/economia/noticia/a-edp-quer-casar-a-energia-hidrica-com-a-solar-em-trasosmontes-1759105

http://www.dn.pt/lusa/interior/edp-inaugura-hoje-projeto-fotovoltaico-na-barragem-do-alto-rabagao-8613806.html