Commercial operation starts at 50-MW Enel solar plant in Brazil

• Brazilian power market regulatory authority Aneel has actually given the go-ahead to the launch of business procedures at a 50-MW solar plant possessed by Italy's Enel Green Power SpA

Constructed in the city of Sao Goncalo do Gurgueia, Piaui state, the UFV Sao Goncalo 10 photovoltaic (PV) center belongs to the 608-MW Sao Goncalo solar facility.

Previously this year, the Italian power titan took into procedure a 475-MW area of the Sao Goncalo complicated, of which 265 MW is sustained by 20-year power supply arrangements (PPAs) with numerous firms, Enel specified formerly.

When completely on-line, the complicated is anticipated to create around 1,500 GWh yearly and also have the ability to prevent the discharge of over 860,000 lots of co2 (CO2) right into the environment annually.

The Sao Goncalo is taken into consideration to be South America's biggest solar PV center in addition to Enel's initial plant in the nation to utilize bifacial solar components.