AES finishes 5.2-MWp solar plant in El Salvador

• AES El Salvador as well as its unit AES Soluciones inaugurated on Friday a 5.2-MWp solar photovoltaic (PV) plant in El Salvador.

The local system of AES Corporation (NYSE: AES) invested USD 5 million (EUR 4.2 m) in the Opico Power PV park. With its 12,834 photovoltaic panels as well as 24 inverters, the solar plant is anticipated to produce sufficient power to fulfill the annual need of 11,000 neighborhood homes.

Treatment a 50,000-sq-m (538,195 sq ft) area, Opico Power ought to be able to help AES to balance out 2,371 tonnes of co2 (CO2) discharges annually. The solar farm also aids AES to attain its target to reduce carbon discharges by 50% in all its procedures by 2022, and by 70% by 2030, the firm mentions in journalism launch.

In order to satisfy its objective, AES El Salvador has actually made a number of investments in the nation's tidy energy market. In October 2019, along with Central-American company Corporacion Multi Inversiones (CMI), it switched on the 100-MW Bosforo plant, AES kept in mind.