Braga hosts the first renewable energy community in Portugal
dstgroup has created a Renewable Energy Community (CER) on its campus in Braga, which provides between 30 and 40 percent of the energy needed for the companies installed there to operate, it was announced this Tuesday.
Speaking to Lusa, the administrator of dstsolar, André Marques, said that CER has an installed power of 736kW, but the idea is to increase it, with the installation of photovoltaic panels on all roofs.
“Our forecast is that the energy bill will drop between 30 and 40 percent”, he said.
CER’s objective is precisely to save energy, through production and self-consumption, in order to generate benefits for the buildings of the various companies in the group.
For dstsolar, this CER is “a pilot that successfully completed the relatively simplified licensing process and with easy dialogue with the various licensed entities”.
Now, dstsolar “turns to the market, to raise awareness among the business fabric, municipalities and other agents so that they integrate energy production systems from renewable sources in the different types of customers and users”.
“We have an area of activity linked to the development and implementation of energy communities. We can provide the operating lease modality, without any initial investment cost for the customer”, says André Marques, administrator of dstsolar.
In addition to the production and self-consumption of energy, the CERs also make it possible to store renewable energy and share flows of energy produced and energy not consumed with members of the same energy community, thus guaranteeing the fight against poverty and energy illiteracy and other types of imbalances or socioeconomic vulnerabilities.
“Portugal is clearly a country that meets the necessary conditions for us to bet and be exemplary in the field of renewable energies, namely in the decentralized production in the various sources that we have, and today producing energy from renewable sources and at low cost is a goal national”, concluded André Marques.