Renewable power producer EDP Renovaveis SA (ELI:EDPR) announced on Thursday it has commissioned an 8.4-MW solar plant in Portugal which is part of the company’s first wind-solar hybrid facility in the Iberian Peninsula.
The Mina de Orgueirel Solar Plant, as it is named, was built next to the 11-MW Mosteiro Wind Park in the Portuguese municipality of Sabugal.
EDPR said the photovoltaic (PV) plant alone features over 17,000 bifacial solar panels. Together with Mosteiro’s eight turbines, the hybrid asset should now be capable of generating up to 39.5 GWh per year, enough to power more than 30,000 people annually.
The wind park has been in operation since 2004 and has produced over 350 GWh of clean energy up till now.
“We fully intend to carry on investing in the hybridisation of parks held in our portfolio, both in Portugal as well as in other regions with strong development potential”, states Duarte Bello, EDPR executive director for Europe and Latin America.
In total, EDPR’s Iberian Peninsula hybrid projects exceed 1,600 MW in capacity. The firm noted these schemes are either in the study or development phase.
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