Bosch Inaugurates in his headquarters of Madrid a photovoltaic installation of 331 kWp

The mayor of Madrid, Ana Bottle, accompanied by the adviser of Economy and Inland revenue of the Community of Madrid, Percival Manglano and the president of the Group Bosch for Spain and Portugal, Frank Seidel, have inaugurated, in the installations of the central headquarters of Bosch in Madrid, a photovoltaic installation of 331 kWp and have assisted to the presentation of other sustainable energetic solutions. Between these find three points of recarga for electrical trucks, scooters and and-bikes – one of them is a point of recarga fed by photovoltaic modules (‘fotolinera') ¬–, in addition to diverse efficient technologies for the air conditioning of the division Bosch Termotecnia. With these solutions, Bosch shows his business commitment with the society by the protection of the environingingment by means of the utilisation of clean energies in his installations.

The mayor of Madrid and the adviser of Economy and Inland revenue of the regional government had, besides, the opportunity to visit in the same enclosure the factory of sensors of last generation, so much of acceleration and atmospheric pressesure, as of ultrasounds, that instrument important systems of the sector of the automotive sector, like devices of activation of the airbag or the system of assistance to the parking “ParkPilot”. This productive activity converts to this centre of manufacture of Bosch in Madrid in one of plant them leaders in technology and electronic processes.

After the visit to the factory, the mayor, accompanied of the regional adviser, directed to the photovoltaic installation where discovered a memorial plate of the inauguration, an act to the that assisted other authorities and personalities stood out, between them the ambassador of Germany in Spain, Reinhard Silberberg, as well as high charges of the central administration, regional and local and important customers of the divisions of automotive sector, solar power and termotecnia, that were accompanied by directors of these areas of business of Bosch. Next, the authorities attended the explanations of Holger von Hebel, president of the Solar division Power, and of Paulo Duarte, responsible for Spain and Portugal, about the characteristics of the photovoltaic installation. Likewise, the managers of Sales Instrument Original and Termotecnia, Ricardo Olalla and José Ignacio Mestre informed them on the stations of recarga for electrical vehicles and the efficient energetic solutions for the home, respectively.

“The innovation has been and continue being the base of the success of the Group Bosch and what has carried us to be one of the greater companies of technological innovation of the world” manifested the president of the Group Bosch for Spain and Portugal, Frank Seidel, during his speech of inauguration.

To continuation, took the word Percival Manglano, adviser of Economy and Inland revenue of the Community of Madrid, the one who recognised that “Thanks to companies that invest in innovation, the Community of Madrid leads the cost in R&D with some upper investments to 2%, very above the Spanish average that situates in 1,3%”. Manglano Concluded his words congratulating to Bosch “by this glorious photovoltaic plant” and appreciating the investment realised in the region.

Finally, Ana Bottle, mayor of Madrid, clausuró the act affirming that “The leadership of Madrid bases in his attainments when reducing the broadcasts of CO2, in the energetic efficiency, in the network of public transport and in the sustainable gestión of the resources”.

Ana Bottle did reference to the network of Madrilenian public transport, “one of the most extensive and intermodales of Europe, and each more sustainable day: more than 35% of the buses of the Municipal Company of Transports (EMT) correspond with the call floats “green”, electrical, hybrid, of natural gas compressesed or gas liquefied of the oil”. The mayor of Madrid concluded: “Some urban surroundings like Madrid is ideal so that it germinate the business dynamism and the green economic ‘development' or sustainable”.

Bosch, world-wide referent in equipment for automotive sector and with an increasingly active presence in other sectors of activity like industrial technician, and goods of consumption, hygiene and communication, orients his activities of consistent form to the energetic efficiency and the employment of the natural resources. Near of the 40 percent of his sales the past year realised with products that help to protect the environingingment and that reduce the consumption of natural resources.

In his centres of production delivered by all the world, Bosch pursues the aim to reduce the broadcasts of CO2 as minimum 20% between 2007 and 2020, having reached already in 2011 the half of this put. In this same line of environingingmental worry finds the construction of this photovoltaic installation, developed by the Solar division Power, that produces photovoltaic solar components of big efficiency based in crystalline silicon.

The president of the Group Bosch for Spain and Portugal affirmed that “From Bosch, are convinced that the sun will be on a long-term basis one of the sources of power more important. Therefore, we follow investing and innovando in this clean and free power of broadcasts contaminantes, with the aim to do it increasingly economic”.

The photovoltaic installation, situated in the parking of employees, occupies a surface of 3000 m2 and has a power hammer of 331 kWp. It produces 430.000 kWh, equivalent to the half energetic consumption annual of more than 140 houses unifamiliares of 4 people. All this allows an annual saving of 162 tonnes of CO2 that will not issue to the atmosphere. Or what is the same, the equivalent to the consumption of 66.000 litres of fuel.

Inside the area of Technical activity of Automotive sector, the most important for the Group Bosch, the photovoltaic solar power presents also big opportunities, since it allows to use this clean power for the recarga of the batteries of the electrical car. This awards him to Bosch the big advantage to offer to the manufacturers of trucks a complete solution: from the components, the battery and the feeding, until the gestión of the infrastructure of recarga.

The installation complements with three points of recarga for solutions of electrical mobility so much for trucks, like scooters or electrical bicycles, all they connected to a platform eMobility of Bosch of gestión of electro-mobility. It includes also a ‘fotolinera' that uses the power proveniente directly of photovoltaic solar modules that, when lacking broadcasts contaminantes so much in the production of electricity as during the operation of the vehicle, guarantees the “zero” real broadcasts.