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Self-consumption panels in Teba, Málaga.
- In Teba (Malaga) and Carmona (Sevilla) Endesa has already begun implementing measures such as the analysis of the energy consumption of municipal buildings, the installation of charging stations for electric vehicles, self-consumption in City Council buildings and efficient street lighting.
Endesa has launched an accompanying innovative project on the road to energy transition in the locations where the Company is building new photovoltaic plants in Spain. The places chosen for Endesa to undertake this innovative energy transition initiative were the Andalusian towns of Teba and Carmona, where the Company's renewable subsidiary Enel Green Power Spain is building two 50 MW photovoltaic plants.
The project was designed by Endesa's subsidiaries Enel Green Power España and Endesa X and aims not only to create value through the construction of new renewable installations, but to go further with actions that generate shared value for society.
To achieve this Endesa is collaborating with the Town Halls firstly to organise training courses in renewable mathematics in the localities where it builds renewable plants in order to promote employability in an increasingly booming sector, and secondly, by developing innovative projects in which the land is being returned to its primary use as a result of initiatives such as grazing under photovoltaic panels, "agrivoltaica" (planting crops under panels) and even solar beekeeping, with hives in photovoltaic plants themselves and nourished by these crops.
"It is a pioneering initiative that seeks to lead municipalities where renewable facilities are built towards real energy transition, as well as making them models for sustainability in energy consumption and efficiency," explains Rafael González, CEO of Generación de Endesa. In Teba in Málaga and Carmona in Seville, Endesa has already signed collaboration agreements that will enable these two Andalusian locations to be at the forefront of energy and become more sustainable municipalities.
These types of measures are aimed at both public administrations and small and medium-sized enterprises at a local level, and focus on the development of electric mobility by installing charging stations, measures to improve efficiency such as the installation of self-consumption photovoltaics in municipal buildings, efficient lighting and the replacement of street lighting with LED technology, and monitoring the energy consumed in buildings so as to identify where savings and improvements can be made.
"All these measures will enable municipalities that have already opted to develop renewable energies to take further steps towards energy transition," explains Rafael González, pointing out that "our goal is to accompany these localities right from the outset, from the moment we start building our renewable plants, and to stay with them once construction has been completed, with proposals that generate added value to the production of renewable energy. We firmly believe in the importance of cooperation between public and private entities to make energy transition a reality," he concludes.
In Teba Endesa has already started this process with the installation of 6.4 kWp self-consumption panels in the municipality's health centre. 16 400 W panels have been installed as well as the inverters needed to transform the DC current generated by the panels into AC current for self-consumption or, if necessary, to be injected it into the grid. Endesa is also working on monitoring the energy consumed in 8 municipal buildings, where analysis is being made of energy efficiency, consumptions, and how to improve these variables with minimal investment including the installation of 1 charging station for electric vehicles, a LED street lighting project at the entrance roundabout, and a lighting project to use LED technology at the Castle in Teba
In April the subsidiary of Endesa, Endesa X, will also begin to implement this type of energy transition measures in the Sevillian town of Carmona as an accompaniment to the recently built Las Corchas y Los Naranjos solar plant, and plans to study the implementation of this innovative project in other Spanish municipalities where Endesa has built renewable energy installations for the purpose of creating shared value.