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Ceramic company will save R$45 with solar plant

Project in the interior of Ceará has equipment from Renovigi and has an installed capacity of 788,44 kWp

Ceramic industry will save R$45 with solar energy

Solar plant from Ceramics Girão & Ramos, designed by VS Elétrica and Renovigi equipment. Photo: Disclosure

In Brazil, several industry sectors continue to benefit from the use of solar energy to increase the profitability of your business.

Em Quixere, inside the Ceará, to inauguration a plant with 1.428 photovoltaic panels will help to Ceramic company Girão & Ramos to guarantee a savings of 75% on the electricity bill. 

Currently, the invoice pay every month surpasses the barrier of R $ 60 thousand because of the large energy consumption that is required by the machines used in two of the company's factories.

performed by VS Electric, the project has equipment of Renew and will be opened in May. The expected payback time is up to five years.

In all, the solar power plant count with installed capacity of 788,44 kWp and a monthly production of 100 thousand kWh, enough to supply up to 400 homes.

According to Renovigi, the entire generated energy by the plant will be equivalent to planting more than 3,2 trees per annum, which corresponds to a reduction of more than 350 tons in CO2 emissions.

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Located in Vale do Jaguaribe, 162 km from Fortaleza, the Russian regions, where the municipality of Quixeré is located, is a important industrial hub producer of ceramic tiles and bricks, with around 100 industries.

In order to meet the growing northeastern demand for solar energy, the company itself Renew recently opened a new distribution center, in Jaboatão dos Guararapes (PE), to improve the logistics with a reduction in equipment delivery time.

According to Guilherme Costa, executive manager of Renovigi, the Girão & Ramos plant should be the first of several installations for the ceramics sector in Russas and other industries in the region.

“We are observing this growth in several segments, with medium and large projects being carried out, like this one for which we supply our equipment. We have a gigantic potential market to serve and that can only benefit from solar energy. It is a relationship that will benefit everyone, businesspeople in the sector, customers and society”, he said.

Henrique Hein
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Henrique Hein

He worked at Correio Popular and Rádio Trianon. He has experience in podcast production, radio programs, interviews and reporting. Has been following the solar sector since 2020.

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  • Bruno Mota

    These news stories about solar power plant installations are very illustrative, however I think that the texts should include the size of the areas used in these installations so that the layperson has an idea of ​​their size.

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