The Danish company Eurowind Energy has already started with the construction of its first solar power plant in Portugal, a 22 megawatt (MW) project located in the municipality of Alenquer, in the north of Lisbon.

The project, called Triana, was acquired from Hyperion, a renewable energy company ​​founded by Pedro Bastos Rezende and João Talone.

Construction of the plant began in October, after the acquisition of the project from Hyperion was completed in April of this year (although the agreement for the purchase dates back to August 2020), Eurowind Energy said in a statement.

The plant will have 40,741 photovoltaic panels with bifacial technology from supplier Longi Solar (which can produce electricity from both sides of the module, either directly exposed to the sun or facing the ground), with follower axes (which go to the ground). orienting the panels throughout the day to maximize their sun exposure).

This production unit will occupy 30 hectares and should produce enough electricity to cover the consumption of more than 14,000 families, according to Eurowind Energy.

The construction is under the responsibility of the company CJR Renováveis, and the plant is expected to become operational in the third quarter of 2022.

Pedro Pereira, the director of Eurowind for Southern Europe, said in a statement that this is only the first project by the Danish company in Portugal, a portfolio in one of projects that should go ahead with new plants as early as 2022.

In smaller scale production, Eurowind is also licensing a set of projects in the North and Center regions of Portugal with a combined power of 40 MW, in small production units (UPP), which the company hopes to start installing next year.

Portugal currently has 1,293 MW (1.29 gigawatts) of installed solar photovoltaic capacity, but the range of projects under development will in the next few years increase solar power to between 7 and 9 gigawatts, mainly through the construction of large-scale photovoltaic plants . The largest central plant, designed for Santiago do Cacém, will have more than 1,000 MW of capacity, and is in the environmental licensing phase.

With a presence in Europe and the United States of America, Eurowind has more than 700 MW of wind and solar capacity already in operation and also manages another 800 MW of renewable capacity owned by third parties.