Panama. The world's largest micro-inverter photovoltaic plant, with a capacity to produce 2.4 megawatts, was inaugurated today in Bugaba, western Panamanian province of Chiriquí.
This is the Bugaba Photovoltaic Power Plant, which has 8,000 microinverters in an equal number of 300-watt solar panels mounted on galvanized steel structures on more than 900 concrete poles located on three terraces.
"It is the largest plant in the world with microinverters", cutting-edge technology for its efficiency, "we are pioneers in this issue," said the executive director of the National Energy Company, S.A. (EMNADESA), owner of the solar plant, Guillermo De Roux García de Paredes.
Microinvestors enable greater efficiency and generation in solar energy systems, as well as better monitoring, which reduces operating costs, explained Paul Nahi, CEO of the company Enphase Energy, creator of this technology.
"This is the most advanced energy in the world and makes it possible to build this type of system at low cost with the highest efficiency and reliability. It is the technology that drives the global energy revolution," he added.
The plant was built by the company (NSOLAR), whose executive director, Juan Carlos Navarro, said that the project "puts Panama on the world map because the country is committed to clean energy."
"Energy from a solar generation source is the cheapest on the planet," Navarro said.
The director of the National Authority of Public Services (ASEP), Roberto Meana, stressed that the "future is solar and wind energy", and that he hopes that with this type of generation in Panama the process of replacing energy from fossil sources with renewables will continue.
Meana also noted that the costs of generating power from renewable sources have become cheaper over time.
