This week specialists from the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT) installed the seventh photovoltaic system in Cuba in Isla de la Juventud and reached 74 kilowatt (kW) of installed power, a contribution of that organization to the country's will to change the matrix energy for 2030.
On the roof of the IslaVision telecentre of the special municipality, 40 solar panels were mounted in two days - each with a nominal power of 250 watt peak - that will contribute 10 kilowatts (kW) to the local electrical energy system, informed Jorge Nellar Crespo, director of ICRT energy.
He explained that at 7.30 pm on Wednesday those modules -of Spanish manufacture- were successfully synchronized with the territory's electrical network and will provide the telecentre with considerable electricity savings, from the monthly tribute of 1.2 megawatt (MW) with source renewable energy (FRE).
Also on weekends, when the territorial channel's transmissions, whose monthly consumption is five MW, cease, the energy generated by the photovoltaic system is used in the municipality's energy distribution, he pointed out.
He added that according to project calculations in one year of generation with this type of system, the Isla Visión telecentre would save three tons of fuel oil and help reduce the volume of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
This program for the use of FRE -supported in photovoltaic systems of small power direct to the grid- since 2019 was extended to the television centers of Las Tunas (15 kW), Matanzas (15 kW), Serrana television (5 kW), Isla de the Youth (10 kW) and the Company of Logistics, Engineering and Construction Services (ASTOC) of Havana, he specified.
He pointed out that in 2016 the experience at Radio Jaruco was born and two years later the Universidad de Oriente carried out a feasibility study, thanks to which -when the Maisí radio station and Manzanillo television are incorporated- 98 will have been installed in three years in the Cuban archipelago in a first stage.
He commented that they assumed the task of the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, President of the Republic, to take advantage of all the covers of the network of telecentres and radio stations in the country in order to contribute to saving fossil fuel, which sustains electricity generation.
In addition, in order to lower investment costs, they plan to acquire solar panels in the province of Pinar del Río and only import inverters, although in the sector we have experienced professionals to produce these measurement equipment in the countrym, he limited.
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