EDP switches on solar farm for Portugal’s national postal service

Portuguese utility Energias de Portugal SA (ELI:EDP) has put into operation a 1-MWp solar power plant in Maia municipality at the Northern Production and Logistics Centre of national postal service CTT - Correios de Portugal (ELI:CTT).

The photovoltaic (PV) park features more than 1,800 solar panels and, for the time being, is working on an individual self-consumption basis. The system is capable of meeting 40% of the building's daily energy needs.

EDP said that subject to a licensing process being completed, the solar array will become a Collective Self-Consumption Community that shares its benefits with up to 850 local families and companies. There currently are 20 PV plants installed for buildings managed by CTT on a self-consumption basis, most of which will follow the same "EDP/CTT Solar Neighborhood" model.

Overall, EDP and CTT aim to develop up to 6 MWp of decentralised energy generation projects to benefit around 8,000 families and companies.

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