You have 660,000 panels were installed with a power unit between 330 Watts and 340 Watts with a total of 219 MW and injection capacity into the grid limited to 200 MVA. It is the largest plant in the country, and the largest unsubsidized plant in Europe and is ready to go into operation. The park will provide electricity “equivalent to the consumption of 200,000 homes.”

According to DGEG, “an exploration license for the Alcoutim PV Center was issued on September 15.” It has 40 transformers and 125 inverters with an available capacity of 1600 kVA and is connected to the utility grid through the Tavira substation.

In a statement on the official website, the Directorate General of Renewable Energy said, “This type of infrastructure is essential for Portugal to achieve the goal of promoting decarbonization of the energy sector and to contribute to the renewable energy targets set to reach PNEC 2030, which represents more than 1.3% of this effort in It relates to the new renewable capacity of the electricity production sector. The same note states that its entry into operation “will annually avoid the emission of 177,000 tons of carbon dioxide.”

Long process with calendar delays

The Solara4 project was launched in March 2017, and was supposed to start in April of that year. The building permit provided by the Directorate General of Energy and Geology (DGEG) was valid for two years and expired in September 2018, but the Sino-Irish consortium that includes China Triumph International Engineering and WELink has requested an extension.

The pandemic has also not helped the calendar, which has again delayed infrastructure construction work that is now able to start operating.