EDP to build 4 MW floating project in southern Portugal

EDP-Gestão da Produção de Energia, S.A., a unit of Portuguese power utility EDP, is set to build a 4 MW floating solar farm located at the Alqueva Dam on the River Guadiana, along the border of the Beja and Évora districts in southern Portugal.

The facility will feature around 10,000 PERC half-cell solar modules, each with an output of 385 W, spanning 3.9 hectares of water surface on the Alqueva reservoir, in an area immediately upstream of the dam. The PV system will be divided into five sub-units, each spaced about 13.5 meters apart from each other.

The solar plant is expected to produce approximately 6 GWh per year. The project is expected to be operational by 2020.