EiDF to set up 2.6-MW roof PV array for floor tiles manufacturer in Spain

• Spanish company Energia, Innovacion y Desarrollo Fotovoltaico, or EiDF Solar, will certainly construct a 2.6-MW solar array on a factory roof coming from ceramic tiles supplier Grupo Halcon Ceramicas in Castellon, Spain.

EiDF, which specialises in solar self-consumption, said it was hired to design, construct, operate and also keep the consumer's PV system. Setup is because of start in the coming weeks.

The array will certainly span a rooftop surface area of 12,304 square metres (132,439 sq ft), which will be covered in more than 4,800 components. The system will can producing 3,582 MWh annuallies, or about as much as some 1,248 homes can take in, the PV company estimates.

EiDF expects to finalise the project this fall.

Once in operation, the array will certainly produce adequate power to satisfy 33% of Halcon Ceramicas' power requires at the website as well as help lower the firm's annual electrical energy costs by 48%, EiDF claimed.