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Central Cuban province to increase photovoltaic generation

Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, Jan 25 (Prensa Latina) This central Cuban province is betting today on overcoming the benefits of changing the energy matrix to photovoltaics, a clean generation that provides electricity and increases fuel savings.

The highest authorities of Sancti Spiritus are seeking sovereignty with the use of solar radiation beyond daylight hours when the photovoltaic parks in the territory can supply part of the demand during the peak hours of midday.

According to the execution program, three new parks will be inaugurated in the territory in the last half of the year that will provide more than 80 percent of the average day’s electrical consumption.

Directors of the Sancti Spiritus electric company confirm that the first to be generating will be those of Tuinucú and Cabaiguán, and later Jatibonico, which will be able to offer the system more than 63 MegaWatt (MW).

So far, the seven photovoltaic solar parks (PSFV) in operation in the province have an installed capacity of 18.5 MW.

According to Prensa Latina, the previous energy sources will be joined by the largest PSFV, which is in the initial phase near the Arroyo de Laja camping base in Cabaiguán.

The preparation of the land is in the hands of the No. 2 Earth and Asphalt Movement Brigade of the Construction and Assembly Company of Sancti Spíritus, which will deliver the esplanades where the entire structure of the installation, known as the “energy giant”, will be assembled.

The civil construction stage includes the bases for the 11 PSFV inverters and four guardhouses for the protection of the installation. Then the legs, tables and panels that will convert sunlight into 21.8 MW will be placed.

Specialists from the Ministry of Energy and Mines confirm that the generation of electric energy through this modality will grow by more than two thousand megawatts with the completion of new solar photovoltaic park projects in the country.

This figure means multiplying by seven in a short period of time the installed power in recent years, which at the end of July of last year was only 286 megawatts.

The projection includes technologies that will allow the use of photovoltaic energy beyond daylight hours with the increase of 200 MW in the accumulation of energy through battery banks, a concept by which Cuba is currently limited.

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