The world´s largest PV solar plant open in Southern Spain
With an installed peak power of 23 MW (updated), the solar park at Jumilla, Murcia (Southeastern Spain) is the world’s current highest capacity PV plant and the most efficient to-date.
It took a team of 400 people 11 months to build the Jumilla plant, where 120,000 solar panels are grouped into 200 separate photovoltaic arrays -owned by different investors- to convert light from the sun into electricity. It’s expected to generate an estimated annual income of $28 million (€19 million) and a reduction in CO2 emissions of 42,000 tons a year.
The plant covers an area of 100 hectares in La Hoya de Vicentes, Jumilla, (see picture) where the local Mayor says 300 days of sun a year are guaranteed. Its total annual production will be the equivalent of the energy used by 20,000 homes.
The project developer was Luzentia Group. Luzentia awarded the construction of the park to Elecnor, a company with a solid background in engineering and the solar industry. The solar arm of Elecnor, Atersa, worked as the systems integrator, with solar panels coming from different firms, due to the size of the project. Besides Atersa, the other providers were Solon, Yingli, Suntech and Ningbo.
Powerlight (Sunpower Corp.) provides its patented single-axis solar trackers to improve the system´s performance.
Different measures were taken following the recommendations from a local association, Juncellus, to ensure high environmental criteria in the construction of the plant. They included replanting an area of almost 5.4 thousand square yards around the plant, water deposits for fires, drinking troughs for birds and other such details.
According to the figures given by the Spanish Minister of Industry at its inauguration earlier this month, renewable energy currently accounts for around 7% of the total primary energy produced in the country, and will reach 10% in 2010 if biomass production is added onto the energy produced by solar and wind farms. Spain will be able to reach the European Union’s target of a 20% share by 2020, he said.
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January 31, 2008 at 3:35 am
very useful information
February 15, 2008 at 4:16 pm
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February 15, 2008 at 5:55 pm
And this is better than using nukes why? All the toxins used to make solar panels? All the trees clear-cut? This is a religious sacrifice to the (false) god of solar power. What idiots.
September 11, 2009 at 6:50 pm
You just forget that Jumilla (spain) is surrounded by miles of near dessertic terrain, WITHOUT trees, so, where is the clear-cut? In addition, they replanted a huge area near the plant
October 15, 2009 at 7:20 am
ia pula de coi
February 15, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Actually, this area is primarily scrub (as you can see in the photo) and about as forested as the Mojave Desert.
Also, the release said they replanted 5.4 square yards! That must have taken them minutes!
(By contrast, of course, nuclear plants take no toxins to make, produce no toxins and take up zero space. RR should probably think before name calling.)
February 15, 2008 at 8:10 pm
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February 15, 2008 at 8:12 pm
RTL – I agree… looks like Scrub to me. Also… you just can’t beat solar today!
Russ
http://www.GadgetKing.com
February 15, 2008 at 9:07 pm
To RR: To check on how safe nuclear is, read this article at Forbes (Waste mismanagement), a little mess with a $85 billion tab to be picked up by the American taxpayer.
To RTL: Thanks for the comment about the number of yards, you made me realize about a typo in the conversion (a “thousand” was lacking), which I have corrected; my bad, apologies 🙂
To RTL and Russ: About it being scrub, well, if some areas have just been replanted, no wonder they look like scrub, they must be pretty small still. Anyway, the trees probably chosen are Mediterranean pine, not too far from the look of scrub. Besides, we don´t know how the slopes looked before the plant, do we? Maybe they were completely barren.
February 16, 2008 at 1:43 am
Nuclear power is safe!
Click here to see why! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pripyat,_Ukraine
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February 21, 2008 at 2:51 pm
You oculd have built two nuclear power stations on that land. Alternatively, you could have fulfilled you obligation to the biosphere and put up an oil/gas/coal-fired one, so as to raise the atmospheric CO2 partial pressure to nearly-safe levels again. It has never been so low in the geological history of the planet, and many scientists are worried (check it out.).
February 8, 2010 at 10:33 pm
Very likely you could have built 2 nuclear reactors but you would also have to find room for –
1. the cooling towers
2. a lake to supply the water for the steam turbines
3. an underground or open cut mine to supply the uranium for the reactor
4. an area where the nuclear waste can be stored indefinitely
5. a moderate sized town to house those in charge of the running and security of the nuclear rectors.
February 21, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Well, I am only transmitting the story, not really in the business of building power plants, nuclear or otherwise. I do not understand the second part of your comment, Is there a link that is missing where I may read more about that phenomenon you mention?
March 9, 2008 at 7:05 am
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March 18, 2008 at 12:10 pm
THE BIGGEST IS IN PORTUGAL
PORTUGAL has now completed the largest solar photo-voltaic installation in the world when the switch was thrown on the facility located at Moura, Alentejo.
for 30.000 houses!!! BE TRUE
Thanks
March 20, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Hi, Emanuel
The key word here is “operational”. You may read here that I already mentioned the plant in Moura almost a year ago Upping the ante in PV solar plants, but I have not seen a story confirming that it is already in service. If you are certain of it, please, I would appreciate the link, as I intend to do a post about it (after all, it has been developed by a Spanish company).
March 22, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Dear Ibrice:
Here you are!
http://diariodigital.sapo.pt/dinheiro_digital/news.asp?section_id=6&id_news=95843
Best regards.
Emanuel
March 27, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Hi, Emanuel
Thanks for the link. As I suspected, only some 2,5 MW are online right now, so I do not think they have inaugurated it officially. I will wait until they do.
May 3, 2008 at 11:58 am
Look at how they destroyed that land for so little electricity.
April 19, 2014 at 10:26 pm
What land? You mean desert where only bushes are growing if you are lucky.
May 12, 2008 at 6:38 am
Hi, I am looking for supplier and installers of solar panels etc, I’m not too far away from the new site. Can anyone help? Thanks
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August 4, 2008 at 1:00 am
Dear PV Experts:
Taiwan is going to build a PV power plant with 5MW size.
Supprisingly, we face the differnt voice on this PV plant.
Som environmental group says this will affect the season birds which
comes to Taiwan on the winter days. So they reject this clean energy.
Is there any published articles on the PV reflection on birds which
hinder their lives or flying habbits?
I will appreciate any comment.
Wen-Fu Hsu
National Applied Research Lab.
renewable.3e@gmail.com
November 5, 2008 at 6:17 am
Thanks a lot for this usful information. But I have a question about the price of installing this huge plant.
February 10, 2009 at 2:50 am
The CPV industry has the ability to collect many hundreds of times the energy before any rare elements are used up! This means that if, for example, “only” 400 gigawatts of production is available from estimated mining researves of indium, CPV would increase that by up to 800 times!
You do the math. Tell me if it is enough to “convert” the whole planet to clean electricity `~’
Reasonable feed in tariffs and the solar printer makes it possible on a very large (and already taken) scale. Say yes on solar (or destroy the planet).
February 14, 2009 at 9:26 am
Who do i contact for a solar farm on my 30,000 M2 plot of land in Andalucia ?
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April 1, 2009 at 3:19 pm
I would prefer to have a mixed deciduous forest on that site and have all the home owners in the surronding 500 square miles invest in these energy units on their home roofs instead….saves a lot of
green land destruction !!
May 2, 2009 at 5:44 pm
It says “300 days of sun a year” above, but not says ‘hours of sun a day’ in Jumilla. Do you konow this data?
August 12, 2009 at 11:58 am
Could you please give to us your contact information and to see how we could work out small capacity projects for several localities in Mali
August 28, 2009 at 5:07 am
Dear manager
We would like to know if you have pv solar of 80w and 75w on your stock
Hope to hear from you shortly
Regards
Judy(purchasing manager)
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Plot 2 south st
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Kampala/uganda
Tel 256 712273466
Fax 256 414 236781
September 6, 2009 at 10:30 am
The need is to bring breakthrough in installation cost. This is the most safe means of electricity generation and most promising means to protect the EARTH.
September 19, 2009 at 6:44 am
Dear Sir,
Good day to you .Kindly give us the quotation for 10pcs of 45A.12V Solar Charge Controllers and 5pscs of Garmin Gps72 if you have it in stock including the freight cost to Dakar International Airport,Senegal asap.
We are Lambub Enterprises located in Dakar,Senegal West Africa and we deals in Solar Equipments and installations.
We hope to read from you asap.
Thanks
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October 27, 2009 at 2:02 am
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We are a Company in uganda dealing in the above mentioned items .
For that matter we would like to get a price quotation C&F KENYA Iinternational air port.
Avail us with the price in US$ to enable us give you our order.. we are required to supply them to an organisation here in Uganda (we won a tender to supply these items for a period of 3 years.
We hope ouR request will meet your kind approval and avail us with the requested information as soon as you are ready with it.
Thanks
GODFREY LAMBART
October 30, 2009 at 6:19 pm
What inverters are they using? What type and how many? We are working on a 1mw system offgrid and running into inverter (reliabality) problems? Any help is appreciated.
November 6, 2009 at 1:54 am
RE: PRICES C&F KENYA INT AIR PORT
DUNCAN ELVIS SOLAR GARAGE
PO BOX 33833 KAMPALA UGANDA
PLOT 2-4 INDUSTRIAL AREA
TEL:256782-493743
FAX:256414-345597
ATTN GODFREY LAMBART
ATTN TO THE SALES DEPARTMENT
RE: PURCHASE OF SOLAR PANELS GEN SETS ETC
We are a Company in uganda dealing in the above mentioned items .
For that matter we would like to get a price quotation C&F KENYA Iinternational air port.
Avail us with the price in US$ to enable us give you our order.. we are required to supply them to an organisation here in Uganda (we won a tender to supply these items for a period of 3 years.
We hope ouR request will meet your kind approval and avail us with the requested information as soon as you are ready with it.
Thanks
GODFREY LAMBART
January 16, 2010 at 5:08 am
Dear sales manager hope your doing well in business we would like to buy soler panels from your company so tell us the price and the size of of 75 WTTS MONOCRYSTALINE
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January 16, 2010 at 5:10 am
we need soler panels 75 wtts monocrystaline
January 19, 2010 at 8:19 pm
Your project is truly inspiring. You are an example to the world and especially to Australia where I am based now.
Well done and keep spreading the message.
March 21, 2010 at 4:03 am
Good post! I think that time for adopting green energy sources has arrived.
May 5, 2010 at 3:25 pm
100 hectares (~247 acres) for 23 MW of power! Currently planned nuclear site to deliver 2300 MW on 218 acres or 88 hectares. That makes a lot of sense. Nuclear Power – the clean green “common sense” machine!
August 2, 2010 at 1:43 pm
i really love how folks are spouting nuclear power. i guess no one remembers chernobyl. oh well.. moving on.. even with the ‘greenhouse gases’ pv creates, it takes 10x as much out of the air, by taking reactors that are just using ‘clean coal’ (LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING ELSE MORONS, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS CLEAN NUCLEAR OR CLEAN COAL, ITS ALL MARKETING!). so before you rant about something idiots like yourself hardly know about, be sure to get your facts straight. pv is the cleanest energy known to man. it can be printed on almost any surface. can you do that with coal or nuclear? NO. nuclear h as cost us 1000 times the lives that PV has.
August 25, 2010 at 11:38 pm
Currently list with 1000 large photovoltaic plants is available (peak power > 1.6 MWp).
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