{"id":1860,"date":"2010-03-29T12:26:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T16:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:52:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:52:51","slug":"spain-gets-bigger-on-solar-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/spain-gets-bigger-on-solar-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain gets bigger on solar power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/95dfa5341e.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Assyce<\/figcaption><\/figure>A 26 MWp solar free-field power plant is being built in Extremadura, Spain, by Assyce Fotovoltaica, a Spanish system integrator company. The power plant with a land area of 69 hectares should be completed by the end of the year and will generate more than 42 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year. The plant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s output could save 30 tonnes of carbon dioxide every year and energize more than 14,000 four-person households for a whole year, the company says.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The area offers very good conditions for photovoltaics,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d explains Luis Garrido, managing director of Assyce Fotovoltaica. The company is based in Padul (Granada region) and has already constructed more than 12 solar power plants across Spain over the last few years. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Due to the high level of solar radiation in the south of Spain, we can expect a very good yield of electricity.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The electricity yield will also benefit from the implementation of a new transformer technology. &#8220;In contrast to traditional power plants, electricity loss is considerably reduced,&#8221; says Garrido. <\/p>\n<p><!--adsense#300--><\/p>\n<p>Assyce is also implementing in this project the inverter system technology from market-leader SMA Technology AG, based in Kassel, Germany. 36 transformer stations will be built up on the 69-hectare site. With more than 337,000 modules capturing solar radiation, Assyce Fotovoltaica is employing First Solar&#8217;s thin film technology, which has already been successfully used in other solar power plants and has been crucial in the implementation of this project. &#8220;The modules are very effective and durable and they are perfect for use in hot climate regions,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d explains Garrido.<br \/>\n<!--adsense--><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top:10px;height:15px\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/6189a3c5-c0b7-41fb-bad0-78c274014c69\/\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=6189a3c5-c0b7-41fb-bad0-78c274014c69\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" style=\"border:none;float:right\"><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/germans-predict-solar-energy-market-expansion\/\" title=\"Germans predict solar energy market expansion\">Germans predict solar energy market expansion<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/latin-america-starts-to-migrate-to-renewable-energy\/\" title=\"Latin America starts to migrate to renewable energy\">Latin America starts to migrate to renewable energy<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/electricians-go-green-or-go-obsolete\/\" title=\"Electricians: go green or go obsolete\">Electricians: go green or go obsolete<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/non-profit-takes-solar-powered-mobile-technology-to-developing-world\/\" title=\"Non-profit takes solar-powered mobile technology to developing world\">Non-profit takes solar-powered mobile technology to developing world<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/happy-world-environment-day\/\" title=\"Happy World Environment Day\">Happy World Environment Day<\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 26 MWp solar free-field power plant is being built in Extremadura, Spain, by Assyce Fotovoltaica, a Spanish system integrator company. The power plant with a land area of 69 hectares should be completed by the end of the year and will generate more than 42 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year. The plant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s output [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,33],"tags":[88,312,314,313,181,311,116,199],"class_list":["post-1860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photovoltaic-solar-power","category-solar-power","tag-energy","tag-extremadura","tag-granada","tag-kassel","tag-photovoltaics","tag-power-station","tag-renewable","tag-spain"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9592,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions\/9592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}