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A Böno Photovoltaic opens, on Wednesday afternoon (29), the first solar plant in Latin America built on top of a deactivated landfill. The inauguration takes place at the Caximba, in Curitiba (PR).
With investment of R$ 28 million It is installed power of 4.55 MW, the construction of the solar plant is the result of collaboration between the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH to support cities in developing economies, the Municipality of Curitiba and Bonö Fotovoltaico.
According to the companies, with the start of operation of the plant, a savings of R$ 3.5 million per year in electricity costs of municipal public buildings.
The plant has around 8,600 solar panels, enough to supply more than 30% of public buildings in Curitiba, with a return on investment in around five years.
Böno highlights that with the project the municipality will be able to reduce the emission of 2 thousand tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, thus contributing to meeting the city's goals of reducing greenhouse gases to combat global warming.
“This is a highly complex project, which required a lot of technical study from the engineering team, mainly to overcome soil and terrain challenges in a photovoltaic system that had never been done before in the country and South America. It took approximately two years of development and analysis to arrive at a safe and efficient project”, comments Marcelo Abuhamad, commercial director of the Bonö Energia Group.
“With this inauguration, the plant becomes a reference for sustainable design and environmental construction on landfill for other city halls and private waste treatment and final disposal enterprises in the country”, he adds.
From the conception, bidding and execution of the work, the project had the technical and financial support of international entities such as the C40 Network of Large Cities for Climate Leadership – a group that brings together cities such as New York, Paris, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Yokohama and Stockholm, and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), a German government entity.
