MONTEVIDEO, July 10 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — Uruguay is betting on renewable energies and for this reason the first photovoltaic solar park owned by the state company Administración Nacional de Usinas y Transmisiones Eléctricas (UTE) is under construction today.
There are 67,000 panels being assembled in Punta del Tigre, in San José department, north of here, on a 35-hectare site with a capacity of 32 megawatts.
By March 2024 the park will be operating at one third of its capacity.
UTE plans to add more solar electricity generation to the Uruguayan matrix in the next four years until 2026, with the incorporation of another 100 MW in two or three new parks.
UTE’s president, Silvia Emaldi, told the newspaper El Observador that the plants would be built mainly through own investment or joint ventures.
The panels to be installed will include tracker or solar tracker technology, a mobile mechanical device capable of orienting the panels so that they always point at the sun.
This allows greater efficiency in capturing solar radiation for generation.
Today in Uruguay there are about 250 MW solar energy contracts that feed their production into the electric power system.
Renewables make up the largest percentage of energy sources in Uruguay. — NNN-PRENSA LATINA
