Attention is focused on the preparation of new 20.8 MW parks in Camalote, Florida, Camagüey and La Jagua, while continuing to look for land in Nuevitas, Guáimaro and the capital of Camagüey
Camagüey, Cuba, Aug 2nd.- Engineer Rolando González Rodríguez, investment director of Empresa Eléctrica Camagüey, announced that as the opening of new fronts approaches to establish, in the short and medium term, ten photovoltaic parks of 20.8 megawatts (MW) the province is heading towards the energy transition.
Sources consulted describe that a photovoltaic solar system is a set of elements whose function is to directly convert the energy of the sun’s radiation into electricity. The simplest system is basically made up of a solar panel, a storage battery charge controller and an inverter or direct to alternating current converter.
Currently, with five lower power facilities located in the vicinity of the mechanical plant under the names of Antonio Pías and 13 de Agosto, as well as in the North Ring Road, Imías, Lugareño and Guáimaro, the Camagüey territory assumes 12 MW generated by solar energy.
It was learned that these projects were conceived by the country in two stages, with a total of two thousand megawatts, including technologies that will allow photovoltaic energy to be used beyond daytime hours.
At the end of July, the country has a generation capacity in this modality that reaches 286 MW. With the improvements in energy stability, upon completion of the two projects, the country will stop consuming 900 thousand tons of fuel.
According to engineer Rolando González Rodríguez, of the ten parks projected in the program, three (La Cívica, Imías and Luaces, in Vertientes) are in the phase of soil studies for the driving of the bases, clearing of land, inclusion of temporary facilities, among other aspects, pending the arrival of the teams to Cuba.
Attention is focused on the preparation of new 20.8 MW parks in Camalote, Florida, Camagüey and La Jagua, while continuing to look for land in Nuevitas, Guáimaro and the capital of Camagüey.
A technical requirement maintains that the parks should not be far from the subtransmission lines, through which the electrical energy that reaches homes, industries and production and service centers passes.
(Radio Cadena Agramonte)