Conergy and Gamma Solutions realise 9 solar plants on public buildings
Hamburg / Madrid, 20 May 2013 – There’s a sunny outlook for 9 public facilities in Spain, including some schools, sports facilities, a water company and government buildings. In the future, more than 5,000 solar modules installed on the roofs of these buildings, which Conergy supplied to its partner and general contractor Gamma Solutions, will deliver a total of 1.8 million kilowatt hours of clean solar power a year, sufficient to supply over 500 Spanish households.
Installed on the roofs of the buildings of a public water company in Perafort and Vandellos in Tarragona, two solar power plants with a combined capacity of 500 kilowatt will be ensuring emission-free water treatment. Together, they will be producing 750,000 kilowatt hours per year – five times the amount that the inhabitants of the village of Perafort consume each year. Conergy equipped four further plants with a total capacity of 450 kilowatt in the wine region of La Rioja: two on sports halls, one on a state school and another one on the historic city archives of Logroño, the provincial capital of the autonomous region of La Rioja on the Ebro River in northern Spain. They will be generating around another 600,000 kilowatt hours of clean solar power for the public sector. And the outlook is also sunny for sporting activities in Bailén in Jaén Province, where two further plants were built on top of sports halls. These are complemented by a power plant on the rooftops of the building housing the city council to provide a total capacity of close to 300 kilowatt.
“With these projects, the councils are clearly going for sustainability and quality,” said Luis Jiménez Gutierrez, Managing Director of Conergy Spain. “The rooftop plants supply the electricity during the day, when it is needed in the public facilities. Schools and universities in particular, but also other government buildings, are ideally suited for solar power. Only recently, a Conergy carport plant was connected to the grid on the campus of the University of Almería, for instance. We also see great potential for the future in this sector – particularly as the cost for solar power is already lower than for power from the grid in Spain today.”
Conergy partner Gamma Solutions acts as both investor and general contractor. “With these plants, we are expanding our project portfolio to 10 megawatt of installed capacity,” said David Huete, Energy Manager of Gamma Solutions. “At the same time, we are fulfilling an educational mission by allowing Spanish pupils to experience electricity generation first hand. In future, electricity from renewable energies will gain further in importance, and we as a company intend to participate in this development.”
About Conergy
Conergy supplies complete solar energy solutions from a single source. As a leading PV Solution and Service Provider, Conergy offers its customers tailor made, worry-free, high-performance packages – be it for private or commercial roofs or for multi-megawatt installations. Along with supplying the “hardware” – all the necessary components for a solar plant – Conergy’s complete solutions also include a full range of related solar services from architectural planning to yield insurance providing total piece of mind.
Conergy sells its system solutions around the world. Being active in over 40 countries across 5 continents, and with subsidiaries in 15 countries, Conergy ensures customers are never far from a Conergy expert. In the mature European solar markets, the PV solution and service provider calls upon an unrivalled network of premium quality installers, integrators, solar specialists and wholesalers to gain access to the rooftops and thus support homeowners, private investors and commercial businesses in their efforts to “go solar”. In the emerging photovoltaic markets, the solar experts are focusing on large-scale solar plants, collaborating with international and local investors. As a result, around three-quarters of the group’s sales came from international markets in 2012, a trend which looks set to continue as Conergy consolidates its leading position in the global market.
For its turnkey solar plants all around the world, Conergy’s exacting standards apply. This is backed by a continuous quality assurance process which far exceeds the usual market standards and whose quality has been certified and confirmed by TÜV Rheinland. In the project’s design and development phase, Conergy’s experts manage the planning and financing; and after the plant has been constructed and commissioned they take care of monitoring, maintenance, operational management of the plant and offer comprehensive warranty services and insurance.
Conergy is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and currently employs around 1,200 staff worldwide. Since its foundation in 1998, the company has produced and sold more than 2.2 gigawatts of clean solar energy and planned and constructed solar power plants with a capacity of more than 420 megawatts. This means that in 2012 Conergy plants generated more electricity than one nuclear plant.
