The president of the Junta de Andalucia, Manuel Chaves, has inaugurated a photovoltaic power generation park in Lucainena de Las Torres. The plant has a generating potential of 23.1 megawatts peak making it the third most powerful in the world after the Solarpark "Waldpolenz" in Germany and the planta solar Fuente Alamo in Murcia. The plant has about 135,000 generation cells covering an area of 450,000 square metres and has meant an investment of 140 million euros for the German company New Energy Invest GmbH. The park had to be officially open and registered with the Spanish authorities before the end of September to guarantee that the electricity generated would be bought at the subsidised tariff of 41.75 cents per KW hour, as the government reduced the price paid for energy generated by this type of installation to 31 cents per KW hour on October 1st.
The plant should generate 35 million KW/H per year which is the electricity consumed by about 9,000 average households. The coal fired power station in Carboneras has a generating potential of 860 MW, about 40 times that of the new photovoltaic plant, which results in the emission of some 6,300,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year, meaning the new park could be thought of as avoiding the emission of more than 150 million kilos of CO2 into the atmosphere each year.
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