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In the town of Loma Verde, in the province of Buenos Aires, what is being presented as the first municipally managed photovoltaic park in Argentina, with 2.3 MW of power, has just been put into operation, which will supply electricity to 800 homes in area.
The project has been carried out by the municipality of Escobar, located north of the countrys capital. Specifically, it is about 3,700 panels, distributed over six hectares, which with its installed capacity of 2.3 MW is estimated to be able to produce a total of 3,790 MWh per year. The system uses ten inverters, connected in turn to a voltage transformer station.
The energy generated by the plant, which has been confirmed will have a useful life of between 30 and 50 years, will be fed into the network of the Loma Verde Electric Cooperative, which will later distribute it among the 800 households that use it.
In a statement, it is explained that the investment, which reached 260 million pesos (about two million dollars), will be amortized over a period of seven years. It includes different complementary works, such as the installation of a security post, cameras and closed circuit video surveillance, general lighting and power lines, internet connectivity for the operating room, installation of a second transformer for connection to the network of the cooperative, and improvements in the access to the park and in the internal streets.
An important piece of information is that, as of the commissioning of this park, the municipality of Escobar has become a Renewable Energy Generator User with the delivery of the official certificate granted by the Argentine Secretariat of Energy, which allows any user to generate clean energy for self-consumption and inject surpluses into the grid .
This project was developed within the framework of the Escobar Sustainable municipal program , formed by professionals from different disciplines, and which has already carried out other actions in the field of energy generation from renewable sources. Such is the case of a biodigester located in the Escobar Fruit Concentrator Market, which uses the organic waste generated there and whose electricity allows lighting a sector of the aforementioned building. |
