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Coperfil Real Estate instala placas solares fotovoltaicas en el parque LogisbagesThe solar installation on the cover is one of the largest in Spain
Coperfil Real Estate install photovoltaic solar panels in the Park Logisbages
Drafting Interempresas05/05/2008
May 5, 2008
Coperfil Real Estate Group, specialist in logistics, commercial and complex office parks, has installed photovoltaic solar panels on the Park Logisbages, Sallent (Barcelona). In total, these plates will produce 500,000 kilowatts per hour per year, equivalent to the annual consumption of 235 households. He is the solar installation on roof of Spain's largest ship.
The logistics ship is currently being used by a multinational fashion and the logistics operator Bestin Supply Chain. Solar panels, comprising almost 1,500 modules 44 kilograms each, will occupy a 32 per cent of the 53,000 square meters of the roof of the building. With this system, Coperfil Real Estate Group will get a 100 percent electricity saving.
According to the director of Property of Coperfil Real Estate Group, Oriol Gual, "the company bet strong by alternative energy sources so that their logistical and commercial parks are environmentally more sustainable." "In this sense, until 2011 we anticipate installing photovoltaic plates in 2 million square metres of logistical warehouses and commercial complexes, which will make it possible to overcome the 30 megawatts".
Logisbages is a project of Cimalsa (public enterprise of the Generalitat of Catalonia) and Coperfil it explodes through a partnership private public.
Plates designed to reduce energy expenditure in manufacture
Coperfil commitment to the environment is also present in the own manufacture of photovoltaic modules used by the company, which allows to reduce significantly the energy expenditure in its manufacturing process carried out amorphous silicon in thin layer.
With this system, the modules have very low energy payback time, i.e., need less months to generate as much energy as the consumed in its own manufacturing process. Coperfil Real Estate Group, with the technique of amorphous silicon in thin layer, reduces by half the EPT (Energy Payback Time) or payback period of the energy on the crystalline technologies that have been used so far, that they need a few energy-more expensive manufacturing processes.
Modules used by the company, also maintained an almost constant productivity and present a behavior less dependent on the temperature to which are commonly used.
Solar panels will be 32% of the roof of the building.
Logisbages, a strategic platform
The logistics platform is located in a strategic area, at the confluence of the Eix Transversal (C-25), with the Eix del Llobregat (C-16), which is expected to become an important center of distribution of goods.
The Logistics Park Logisbages was developed through the initiative of the public company (dependent of the Generalitat) Cimalsa and Coperfil it explodes in partnership private public. Located in the polygon 'Els Plans of the room', Logisbages is one of the largest logistics centers that has been built recently in Catalonia.
Logisbages complies with safety regulations fire NFPA (National FIRE Protection Association), much more stringent than the standards of Europe and with a recognized prestige in the international arena. In addition, the Logistics Centre has been built taking into account environmental sustainability criteria.
