The plant might be positioned on the reservoir of the Itaipu Hydroelectric Power Plant. The tender is open till September 5, and the fastened time interval for the set up of the floating photo voltaic plant is about 4 months.
From pv journal LatAm
The Itaipu hydroelectric energy plant, additionally referred to as Itaipu Binacional, is a binational hydroelectric dam positioned between the cities of Hernandarias in Paraguay and Foz do Iguaçu in Brazil, on the Paraná River, which varieties the pure border between the 2 nations, 14 km north of the Friendship Bridge. Last week, the dam operator issued a name for binational tenders for the supply, set up and commissioning of a 1 MW floating photo voltaic system within the plant’s reservoir.
The name for Paraguayan and Brazilian firms is open till September 5.
With an estimated funds of $968,000, the initiative seeks to enhance the technology {of electrical} vitality from photo voltaic sources and is carried out binationally, with the help of the Itaipu Technological Park (PTI) of two banks.
The Paraguayan basic director of Itaipu, Justo Zacarías Irún, defined that originally a ten MW energy plant was thought of, however ultimately the manager board allowed the creation of a primary part with a capability of 1 MW.
The fastened time interval for the set up of the floating photo voltaic plant is about 4 months as soon as the contract is awarded. “If there aren’t any main issues, it’s estimated that the floating plant could be put in this 12 months with an experimental part after which the part of connecting and verifying the SCADA and its monitoring techniques will start, ” the Entity’s Renewable Energy Advisory Board mentioned, including that it might start operations within the first quarter of subsequent 12 months.
The consulting and vitality evaluation firm PSR lately recommended in a report that “floating photo voltaic vitality in Brazil is a chance for hydroelectric crops.” In explicit, the Itaipu hydroelectric plant, which started working in 1984, virtually doubled its technology capability by putting in a floating photo voltaic plant on 10% of the floor of its reservoir, with a width which is 1,350 km2, PSR estimates. A floating system of this proportion has a capability of 13,500 MW; the hydroelectric plant has 14,000 MW of put in capability.
It is estimated at 1.4 MWp of direct present energy from floating photo voltaic panels for every hectare of occupied floor, or 1 MW of alternating present per hectare, after transformation by means of inverters.
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