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Photovoltaic Central Hercules
The park Fotovoltaico Hercules is considered the largest park Fotovoltaico the world. The construction was started at the end of 2002, being completed in June 2006. The top part of their operation was in January 2007 and started in full production in March 2007.
Location: Brinches (Serpa)
Equipment: 52 300 Panels
Installed power: 11 MWp
Investment Approx: 62,000,000 euros
Estimated Annual Production: 21,000 MWh
Equivalents savings in Oil: 1720 tonnes / year (12,556 barrels per year)
Emissions of CO2 avoided: 19,000 tonnes per year.
This project has three important players:
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Tags: geothermal energy, hydropower, wind power, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy
In full'50s, a company announces that we can make use of solar energy. Already at this stage, made up of renewable energy facilities such as solar energy. But if you had all this technology in 1950, why is there no further development in the renewable energy sector? These were very expensive equipment at its assembly and its return took to be done.
The policies adopted at the time did not encourage alternative energy sources and nobody worried about the hole in the ozone layer, the greenhouse effect, climate change, CO2, and over a hundred things that today are the reality we live in difficult times.
Solar Panel - 50 Years
Tags: Renewable Energies,
