New PV park ready to join the grid

Portuguese-based Efacec group has said its photovoltaic park in Cujimir, Mehedinti county, will be ready to go operational early next year, according to Mediafax. Stretching over 36 hectares, the greenfield investment is said to be Romania's largest PV park, featuring 52,000 photovoltaic panels and able to produce enough power every year to meet the needs of about 5,000 households.

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The contractor for the project is Romanian group UTI, which is in charge of access infrastructure works, as well as general electrical installations, electric automations and the project's security system.
"The plant is 100 per cent eco-friendly and has a lifespan of 20 years," UTI representatives were quoted by Mediafax as saying. "On December 31 all work will be completed, and the project will become operational and will start producing energy from the first few days of 2013."
Efacec is a group of companies based in Portugal, with 100 years of experience in energy and over 4,500 employees. The group has operations in over 65 countries worldwide and a turnover of about one billion Euro.
UTI Group is a Romanian-owned company with a holding structure, organized at the operational level on five business lines, namely security and defense systems, retail, information technology and communications, traffic management, construction and facility management.
Romania boasts an installed capacity of 13.1 MW in photovoltaic projects, with projects in the making taking the total PV output to almost 100 MW. Companies are investing in energy production by photovoltaic panels, attracted by the state support offered through the green certificates system.
Green certificates are granted to producers of renewable energy, who sell them to suppliers, bound by law to purchase them in annual quotas. Renewable energy producers earn twice by selling green electricity and by trading the green certificates. The acquisition cost of green certificates is transferred by suppliers to the invoices issued to end customers.