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PV Markets Spain & Portugal PHOTOVOLTAICS IBERIA PV markets Spain & Portugal: Better than feared The PV farm Lo Illan, connected to the grid in the second Spain’s PV sector faces enormous challenges. The modification of the feed- quarter of 2011, is a project in tariff scheme and the economic crisis are seen as the main reasons. In of Gehrlicher Solar. Located in the Murcia province, the Portugal, the government has newly discovered PV and is now eager to get ground-mounted system has a total rated power of 2,065 kW. its piece of the cake. PV modules are made by First Solar, inverters by SMA. he conference “Conferencia de la Industria Spanish solar industry is able to compete on the glo- Photos (2): Gehrlicher Solar Solar-España 2011”, which took place in mid- bal stage, said Antonio Navarro of the European TOctober, reflected the situation of the Spanish Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA). solar sector – and it was said that it seems to be sur- According to the conference participants, the new prisingly good. In the opinion of Javier Anta of the target markets for the Spanish manufacturers will be Spanish Photovoltaic Industry Association ( Asociación mainly the United States, India, Australia, Latin de la Industria Fotovoltaica, ASIF), “the Spanish PV America and Morocco. They all agreed that the PV sector has shown that it is strong and steadfast even sector is in need of stability and a regulatory frame- under difficult external conditions including the un- work that will provide industry participants and in- stable regulatory framework and the economic cri- vestors with the necessary planning security. Espe- sis”. Carlos Montoya of the Institute for Energy cially, abrupt changes in the regulation, which caused Diversification and Saving (Instituto para la Diversifi- the solar sector to crash in Spain, threaten the mar- cación y Ahorro de la Energía, IDAE) in Madrid pointed ket development and lead to major uncertainties, out that “the renewable energy sector is expected to said the representatives. Following an attractive tar- give jobs to about 300,000 people in Spain by 2020”. iff regime that had been put into place for solar pow- It has become clear from the recent past that the er in May 2007, the Spanish market had attracted multi-billion investments. “The strategy of Gehrlicher In September 2008, the Spanish government fi- Solar España is to continue to nally had to pull the emergency break and review the expand throughout the region feed-in tariffs, which brought the Spanish market to a of Murcia. This is why we are sudden standstill. The blow hit the market partici- working on the development pants hard and many solar projects planned at the of plants with lower capacities time failed as a consequence. Under the new regime, for the next two years as well the subsidies will now be limited to a certain amount as on the planning of major of operational hours per calendar year until the end of projects with a total capacity of December 2013. Solar plants with fixed supports are 200 to 400 MWp”, says Klaus limited to 1,250 hours per year. When using single Gehrlicher, founder and CEO of and dual axis trackers, the subsidies will be offered the company. for 1,644 and 1,707 hours, respectively. By 2014, the 120 Sun & Wind Energy 12/2011 limit for all solar power plants planned, constructed or operated at the time will decrease by about 1.5 to 2.5 %, varying with the location. To compensate for the new hourly limitation, the Spanish government has extended the tariff period from 25 to 28 years. Coming out of a deep recession Gadir Solar is an example of how steadfast the Spanish PV sector has recently been. After the mod- ule production was stopped by the company over a period of four months during the summer and wages had been outstanding, the factory in Puerto Real, Cádiz, will now be started up again in November, re- ported the Spanish news portal “La Voz Digital”. The debt has been restructured after a difficult economic situation and supply problems, says the company. There are more signs that Spain’s PV market is re- covering. The investment group OPDE recently award- ed an EPC contract for the construction of a solar park in the province of Navarra to the Spain-based compa- ny Sanjose Constructora. The project has an expect- ed capacity of 12 MW. It will be the largest executed in Spain in 2011 and begin to produce energy by the end of next year. Another project scheduled for completion by the end of 2011 is a 9.9 MW solar plant near Zamora. The investor behind the project is First Solar, which will also supply the 122,000 thin-film PV modules need- ed for the installation. First Solar recently sold the so- lar park to the investment company KGAL. The total capacity of solar power plants owned and operated by KGAL’s investment funds now exceeds 200 MW, says Dr. Klaus Wolf, Managing Director of KGAL. The system was developed and constructed by Gehrlicher Solar España. “Based on our long-term experience Sun & Wind Energy 12/2011 PHOTOVOLTAICS IBERIA Inauguration of Gemasolar So- and the high potential of the Spanish PV market, we lar Power Plant in Spain (from look forward to installing many more PV systems in left to right): His Highness Ge- this region”, says Guillermo Barea Herranz, CEO of neral Sheikh Mohammed bin Gehrlicher Solar España. Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Deputy Supreme Trend towards rooftop systems Commander of the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces, and His Spain’s solar market has not lost all of its strength. Majesty the King of Spain Juan The activities continue both on the mainland and on Carlos I. Photos (2): Torresol the islands. One example is Gran Canaria where Conergy recently installed the largest rooftop system on the Canary Islands. The solar power plant is locat- ed on the roof of the coffee roaster Emicela in Agüimes and has a capacity of 1.75 MW. The investor behind the 14,000 m2 rooftop system is Bankia. “Solar tech- nology plays a vital role in creating a sustainable and securing an autonomous energy supply on the Canary Islands”, says Rodrigo Rato, Executive Chairman of Bankia. Because of the positive experiences made during the planning stage and the installation of the system, the investor decided to commission Conergy for a follow-up project. The Germany-based company is now installing a second system on another rooftop of the coffee roaster in Tenerife with a total of capaci- ty of 270 kW. “There is a clear shift of trends in Spain from ground-mounted installations towards rooftops – Attractive future market whether on industrial buildings such as on the Canaries, or on private homes”, says Luis Jimenez Spain has remained an attractive market for the inter- Gutierrez, Head of Conergy Spain. “The potential national solar sector, although many projects contin- here is immense, despite the cap on the market. ue to be in the planning stage. One of the companies Gemasolar Park: the CPV Doing good business is still possible and with the that want to strengthen their activities in Spain is plant has an annual output of largest rooftop-system on the Canaries, we have yet Gehrlicher Solar. “The strategy of Gehrlicher Solar 19.9 MW and uses a total of again proved this to be true.” According to Jimenez España is to continue expanding throughout the re- 2,650 heliostats for the pro- Gutierrez, Conergy has already installed more than gion of Murcia. This is why we are working on the de- duction of electricity combined 12 MW of clean solar energy on the Canary velopment of plants with lower capacities for the next with heat storage technologies. Islands. two years as well as on the planning of major projects 122 Sun & Wind Energy 12/2011 Isofotón together with Hankook Silicon plan to build a 10,000 t polysilicon factory in Cádiz. Photo: Isofotón that will have a total capacity of 200 to 400 MWp”, Murcia. The grid connection of the other two projects, says Klaus Gehrlicher, founder and CEO of Gehrlicher which are also located in Lorca, is scheduled for the Solar. To this end, the company plans to strengthen end of the year. These five ground-mounted PV pow- the collaboration of its local subsidiary with the pro- er plants have attracted an investment of approxi- vincial government. Gehrlicher recently installed five mately € 32 million to the region of Murcia.” projects with a total capacity of 12 MW, says the CEO. Another company that has been looking towards “Three of them have already been connected to the the Spanish market is the manufacturer of polysilicon grid in the municipalities of Lorca, Cartagena and Hankook Silicon based in South Korea. In a joint PHOTOVOLTAICS IBERIA Construction of an inverter station in the shade of a huge plastic sheet Photos (2): Innotech Solar PV modules being installed on the south- facing roofs of greenhouses near Atarfe in the region of Granada, Andalusia. Project realisation started in spring 2011. Granada: greenhouses covered with PV modules ITS Power, Swiss subdivision of the The PV modules are installed on the south- The investor, Swiss utility Energie Wasser Norwegian cell and module manufacturer facing roofs. On the north-facing sides, Bern, according to Roth, aimed at gaining ex- Innotech Solar, has completed two green- nets will be stretched to protect the plants perience in PV project development in Spain houses with PV power plant roofs outside from bird damages and storms.
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