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Portugal, the largest floating solar park in Europe is ready for launch

The largest floating solar park in Europe, on the hydroelectric basin of the Alqueva dam in Portugal, is ready to produce energy as early as July.

Gianluca Ricciodi Gianluca Riccio
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The Alqueva Reservoir is the largest artificial lake in Western Europe, and the Alqueva Dam is located on the Guadiana River, one of the longest on the Iberian Peninsula. To be precise in Alentejo, in the south of Portugal, near the Spanish border.

The floating solar park, built by the energy giant EDP, it is the size of four football fields. It will have 12.000 photovoltaic panels that will produce 7,5 gigawatt hours per year and will be paired with lithium batteries with the capacity to store 2 gigawatt hours. It will be able to supply power to around 1.500 homes.

Floating, versatile, very useful

The interesting thing about floating solar parks on hydroelectric basins is that they can be connected to existing connections to the electricity grid. The excess energy generated on sunny days can pump water into the lake - energy then stored for use on cloudy days or at night.

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The Alqueva floating solar park in Portugal is an integral part of EDP's plan to reach net zero by 2030. Renewable energies, including hydroelectricity, they now account for 78% of EDP's 25,6 gigawatts (GW) of installed capacity.

Floating solar park in portugal
The floating solar park of Alqueva

Portugal and floating solar parks, an ever stronger love

The Alqueva floating solar park itself will be expanded. More: doubled. Just last month the Portuguese government launched a plan to build a second floating solar park with 70 MW of installed capacity there.

It would be the third overall for the Lusitanians: in 2017, EDP installed a pilot floating solar park with 840 panels on the Alto Rabagão dam. It was the first project in Europe to test the combination of hydroelectric and solar energy. Apparently, a successful marriage.

That will also help the success of a "divorce": Portugal currently relies on Russia for about 10% of its natural gas.

The Alqueva floating solar park is also responsible for making people forget this "old love".

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