Elecnor to Proceed with 20 Megawatt Photovoltaic Project (Spain)

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http://www.solarbuzz.com/News/NewsEUPR311.htm

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 be owned by Fotowatio Energía Solar and will cover an area of around 100 hectares. The project will be sub-divided into 200 installations each of 100 kW in size and involves a planned investment of around 150 million euros.

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Each of these will be mounted on a single-axis solar tracking structure designed by Powerlight Corporation of the United States, 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 CO 2. The work, which will involve more than 350 employees and specialists, is expected to be completed at the end of 2007.

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