{"id":111899,"date":"2020-04-15T15:52:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T12:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/?p=111899"},"modified":"2020-04-15T15:57:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T12:57:18","slug":"avrupanin-en-buyuk-gunes-santrali-elektrik-uretimine-geciyor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/avrupanin-en-buyuk-gunes-santrali-elektrik-uretimine-geciyor\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Europe\u2019s Largest\u2019 Solar Power Facility Comes Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A 500 megawatt solar photovoltaic plant, described by Spanish utility\u00a0Iberdrola\u00a0as \u201cEurope\u2019s largest,\u201d sent its first megawatt hour of energy to the grid earlier this week, a welcome bright spot for an industry that in the months ahead could experience difficulties brought about by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/h1>\n

The N\u00fa\u00f1ez de Balboa<\/strong> facility is located in Extremadura<\/strong>, a region in the west of Spain. According to Iberdrola, it has over 1.4 million<\/strong> solar panels and will be able to supply energy to 250,000 people<\/strong> \"\"per year.<\/p>\n

The plant is a collaboration between Iberdrola and Ecoenerg\u00edas del Guadiana<\/strong> and construction work on the project finished in December last year.\u00a0Photovoltaic refers<\/strong> to a way of directly converting light from the sun into electricity.<\/p>\n

While the commissioning of N\u00fa\u00f1ez de Balboa<\/strong> is an undoubted positive, the solar industry<\/strong>, like many in the renewable energy sector, is facing up to difficulties caused by COVID-19<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, research and consultancy firm Wood Mackenzie<\/strong> said global solar installations<\/strong> for 2020 had been revised down from 129.5 gigawatts (GW)<\/strong> to 106.4 GW<\/strong>, which represents an 18% drop<\/strong> compared to pre-coronavirus<\/strong> levels.<\/p>\n

In a blog post toward the end of March, Abigail Ross-Hopper, the president and CEO of the U.S.-based Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA)<\/strong>, wrote that the solar industry was \u201cat risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Citing a survey carried out with the SEIA\u2019s member<\/strong> companies, Ross-Hopper<\/strong> said data showed that \u201csolar companies and workers are losing business and being put out of work by COVID-19<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year looks set to pose a number of challenges for the renewables sector, many of them connected to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has caused issues with supply chains and forced some factories to shut.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Danish wind turbine manufacturer\u00a0Vestas\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014 a major player in the sector \u2014\u00a0suspended guidance for 2020<\/strong>, noting that the global spread of COVID-19<\/strong> and national measures taken to contain it had caused disruptions to installations, manufacturing and its supply chain.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe situation changes daily and my colleagues\u2019<\/strong> ability to adapt fast and follow our extensive safety measures have been key to keeping performance in the first quarter<\/strong> in line with expectations,\u201d Henrik Andersen, Vestas\u2019 group president and CEO, said in the statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, the pandemic continues to spread<\/strong> and with no clear prognosis on when key wind markets such as the USA, Brazil and India<\/strong> will recover, we are suspending our guidance due to the poor visibility for the remainder of the year.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A 500 megawatt solar photovoltaic plant, described by Spanish utility\u00a0Iberdrola\u00a0as \u201cEurope\u2019s largest,\u201d sent its first megawatt hour of energy to the grid earlier this week, a welcome bright spot for an industry that in the months ahead could experience difficulties brought about by the coronavirus pandemic. The N\u00fa\u00f1ez de Balboa facility is located in Extremadura, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,53,49],"tags":[66250,68878,67254,43643,70170,53114,42491,66267,52259,70168,53157,64604,70171,70167,42867,42846,42868,70169,54979,9658],"views":129,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111903,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111899\/revisions\/111903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}