Stellantis Vigo and Prolosia Energy are working on the implementation of a photovoltaic power generation on the roof of the ships intended for self-consumption, moving towards the decarbonization of the production process.
Prosolia Energy will develop the project at the Vigo plant, in two phases, executing an investment of more than 12 million euros. 27,000 solar panels will be installed, covering an area of 170,000m2, which would be equivalent to 24 soccer fields.
The photovoltaic solar park at the Vigo factory, with a capacity of 18.78 MWp, will allow 23.7 GWh/year of decarbonized electricity to be obtained, supplying 14% of the electrical energy consumed in the production process. In the first phase, on the roofs of buildings 01 and E, more than 15,000 solar panels will be installed, covering more than 92,200 m2 of surface. With an installed capacity of 10.83 MWpwill generate 14.2 GWh of electricity per year.
In the second phase, 12,000 panels will be assembled, covering 77,400 m2 of surface, with a power of 8 MWp, which will generate 9.5 GWh per year.
The solar infrastructure will be completed by mid-2023, with the first phase starting in January. It will pour its production into “position 0”, the point from which the electrical energy for the factory’s production process is currently distributed.
Coinciding with the beginning of this implantation, Stellantis Vigo has already begun to study an extension of the park to practically the entire covered surface of the plant. Thus, all the photovoltaic energy generated, in addition to for self-consumptioncould be used for other purposes, such as hydrogen generation or discharge to the electricity grid.
With the photovoltaic installation in Vigo, which is added to the existing ones in Zaragoza and Madrid, the three Stellantis plants in Spain have photovoltaic installations capable of obtaining and generating their own decarbonised electricity, to meet part of your needsincreasing its competitiveness in a market in which the price of electricity is increasing.