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The government will mark Thursday the beginning of a "new wave of solar power plants" with the inauguration of the first without the several guaranteed tariffs that will start operating until 2021, allowing to triple the production of solar energy in Portugal [19659002] S addressing the Lusa press agency, the Minister of Economy Manuel Caldeira Cabral stressed that "this is the first d & # 39; a new wave of solar power plants built all over the country, which already includes more than a thousand megawatts and "
This 46 megawatt park is the first of a relatively large set of parks that we will inaugurate over the next three It will triple the solar capacity by 2021 and probably six – fold increase in solar power generation capacity by 2025, "noted the leader.
It is thus inaugurated on Thursday the first large solar power station that already operates in the municipality of Ourique, in Alentejo, after an investment of about 35 million euros.
Ourika's 100-hectare photovoltaic solar power plant located near the village of Grandaços, in the municipality of Ourique, Beja District, was completed in June and began producing electricity. the energy earlier this month. developer, MorningChapter.
The factory, which has a 30-year lifespan and a total installed capacity of 46 megawatts distributed by 142,000 solar panels, will produce 80 gigawatt-hours of energy annually, enough to guarantee the According to Manuel Caldeira Cabral, the other factories already under construction have a size ranging from 10 megawatts to 200 megawatts and are located mainly in the south of the country "due to better conditions of sun exposure."
What we hope is that in 2019 several of these solar parks and solar power plants will come into service, "added the official.
Caldeira Cabral pointed out that in the case of the plant inaugurated this Thursday as in the rest, there is infrastructure without feed-in tariff, that is to say without subsidies to the production.
We created conditions of competition so that anyone who wants to invest in this field can do it.We have also created transparent conditions for the licensing of network connection, to give confidence to investors, and we have seen that given the very conditions Portugal, many investors, domestic and foreign, are interested. "
Caldeira Cabral also highlighted the" very interesting production potential "of the country in the field of renewable energy, considering that this bet on the Solar energy will complement the country's energy mix, in which wind or water power already supposes "an important position"
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