The production of the biggest photovoltaic park in Romania starts in the first days of 2013

The largest photovoltaic park in Romania, located in the town of Cujmir, Mehedinţi will begin production in the first days of 2013. The park, owned by the Portuguese group eFace, covers an area of 36 hectares, Mediafax reports.

The installation will feature 52,000 photovoltaic panels and will produce an annual amount of energy needed for covering about 5,000 home users.
"The plant is 100% eco-friendly and has a lifespan of 20 years. On December 31, all work will be completed and the station will be operational and will start producing energy from the first days of 2013," the representatives of the UTI company will provide the siting and the installations.

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 approximately 1 billion euro.

The UTI Group is a Romanian owned company with a holding structure, being 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.

In our country there are photovoltaic panels installed with a combined capacity of 13.1 MW. Next year other units are likely to be built, mounting to almost 100 MW.
The companies are investing in energy production by photovoltaic panels attracted by the state support offered through the system of green certificates.
Green certificates are granted to the producers of renewable energy, who sell them to suppliers, bound by law to purchase them in annual quotas.
Thus, the 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 into the invoices issued to the end customers.