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| Elecnor will build the largest solar facility in the world Elecnor is to build on a turnkey basis a 20 Megawatt photovoltaic solar power system in the town of Trujillo, Cáceres. The solar power system, which goes by the name of La Magascona, will cover an area of around 100 hectares. The project will be sub-divided into 200 installations each of 100 kW in size. Atersa, a subsidiary of the Elecnor Group will supply the more than 120,000 solar modules with which the system will be fitted. Each of these will be mounted on a single-axis solar tracking structure designed by Powerlight Corporation, helping them to collect solar radiation more effectively. The solar infrastructure modules will generate low tension electrical energy which will be transformed up at the transformation centres distributed around the complex. An underground medium tension network will supply the power to a substation which will then modify it to go onstream within the distribution grid. The quantity of energy produced each year at La Magascona will be the equivalent of that consumed by 20,000 Spanish households, and will avoid annual emissions of more than 42,000 tonnes of CO2. The work is expected to be completed at the end of 2007. This solar facility will have more than twice the power of the largest currently in operation anywhere in the world, in Bavaria, Germany, which has 10 MW of power, and also the largest currently under construction, in Serpa, Portugal, with 11 MW. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Construction News :: home page |