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Port of Riga opens new solar panel park

Baltic Container Terminal (BCT), which operates in the port of Riga, has invested more than €1 million (US$1.1 million) in the construction of a new solar panel power plant, which will eventually replace part of the electricity required for the company’s operation with green energy.

Some 1,974 solar panels were put on the 11,600 m² warehouse roof on the company’s property. The overall capacity of the power plant’s inverters is 0.875 MW, and the produced electricity can meet the average use of 250 Latvian households.

The new solar park was inaugurated on 6 September in the presence of BCT shareholders from the Maltese company “Mariner” and Freeport of Riga management.

Also, a new transformer substation was developed and commissioned at the BCT as part of the green power project. It now contains one 1000 kVA transformer, but there is room for a second transformer as part of the company’s expansion plans, which include the construction of another solar park.

The BCT solar panel park is the second green energy production plant to begin operations on the Port of Riga territory.

Kronospan Riga already runs a solar power plant on an area of around 33,000 square meters with an installed solar panel capacity of 4.61 MW, producing electricity for the company’s needs.

Furthermore, Riga Universal Terminal (RUT) has initiated a green energy project in which a solar panel will be installed with a planned capacity of 250 kW on the roof of the company’s building.





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