Brazil's Claro inaugurates 6.3-MW solar plant
- Brazilian telecom Claro SA has actually linked to the grid a 6.3-MW distributed generation (DG) solar plant in the south of the country.
The photovoltaic (PV) park was built by the power arm of neighborhood corporation Grupo Rezek, RZK Energia, in the town of Tanabi, Sao Paulo state.
The facility belongs to the telecom's clean power programme, 'A Energia da Claro', under which renewable power ought to cover 80% of the electricity intake in the company's operations across Brazil. Claro approximates the Tanabi solar farm will have the ability to offset 1,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions every year.
Along with the new asset, Claro and also RZK Energia have actually put seven various other renewable resource plants in operation-- 4 solar, 2 biogas as well as one hydro-- with an overall mixed capacity of 36 MW.
Today, 'A Energia da Claro' has 70 functional clean power plants, that supply clean electricity to over 20,000 of its customer devices as well as offer greater than 60% of Claro's antennas.
