A vivo, telephone company, opened its first power plant distributed energy generation of solar source, in the state of Roraima.
The plant, located in Boa Vista, is the second plant in the company's service in the North region and the 24th in operation in Brazil.
The initiative is part of the company's strategy to expand its own production of energy from renewable sources. There are 85 plants in Vivo's distributed generation program planned for all of Brazil.
Built in partnership with the company VOLTXS ENERGIA S/A, the Boa Vista plant occupies an area of 2,5 hectares with capacity to produce 2.278 MWh/year of energy.
The quantity produced by the plant will be enough to meet all low voltage consumption of the company's 51 consumer units in Roraima, such as stores, antennas and transmission equipment.
According to Vivo's Energy Manager, Jussara Tassin, in the distributed generation model, the energy produced is injected into the local concessionaire's network, in this case, Roraima Energia, and is transformed into consumer credits for the company.
“The initiative reinforces our commitment to maintaining 100% renewable energy consumption, increases efficiency and generates relevant socioeconomic impact for the region”, says Jussara.
DG plants contribute to minimizing system losses and relieving the load on the energy distribution network, in addition to reducing CO2 emissions and avoiding the impacts of large projects on the environment and the community.
In the construction stage, the Boa Vista plant generated 45 jobs and in the operation phase, at the end of April, there will be 10 jobs.
The project as a whole will account for 89% of low voltage consumption, serving more than 30 thousand company units across the country, producing around 711 thousand MWh/year of energy, enough to supply the entire consumption of a city of up to 320 thousand inhabitants.
