The Port Authority of Valencia (PAV) approved the award of the construction and maintenance of the solar energy plant to be located on the roof of the vehicle silo of Valencia Terminal Europa in the East dock of the Port of Valencia to the joint venture made up of Lantania S.A.U and Tecmo Instalaciones, Obras y Servicios S.A.
The awarding of the contract, which, being more than 12 million euros, must be approved by the Board of Directors of the APV, amounts to 16,060,707.27 euros including VAT, with a period for the execution of the works of 19 months and 36 months for maintenance.
The solar station will be located on a surface area of 27,700 m2 on the roof of the terminal operated by the company Grimaldi. The infrastructure will have 10,773 photovoltaic modules installed on a metallic structure inclined at four degrees and facing south.
Four transformers will be installed in two transformation centers with two units of 1,250 kilovolt-amperes (kVA) each and another two of 1,600 kVA.
This installation will generate around 9,000 MWh/year, which represents approximately 11% of the Port of Valencia’s electrical energy consumption.
This project is financed by the Next Generation funds of the European Union and the Spanish Government’s Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan.
This is the second photovoltaic installation awarded by the PAV in the Valencian precinct. The first of these was the one being developed in the Príncipe Felipe dock by the PAVASAL-PAVENER joint venture.
This solar park will generate 2,353 MWh/year, equivalent to 3% of the electrical energy. With these two plants, the Port of Valencia will obtain 14% of its electricity consumption.
Valenciaport is also studying new locations for a third photovoltaic plant which would be larger than the two already allocated. The aim is to increase the use of these clean energies with a view to 2030, zero emissions.
Thus, in addition to solar energy, progress is also being made in the use of hydrogen, which has already loaded H2 in the hydrogen plant installed on the Xità quay, Liquefied Natural Gas, wind, and wave energy.
In this line, it should be remembered that the Port of Gandia has also been awarded the contract for the solar plant to be located in shed 4 on a surface area of 4,500 square meters, with a power output of 990 MWh/year and which will make the Gandia site the first European port to be self-sufficient in energy.
The works on this site, which will take 8 months to complete, have already begun, as part of the process of revitalizing the Gandia site.
Recently, the Port of Valencia received the first load of hydrogen (H2) to supply the refueling station located on the Xità quay. This makes it the first port in Europe to have a hydrogen installation in real operating conditions.
