Andalusia launches the first agroenergético greenhouse.

COME TO POWER GENERATING A megawatt.

The newly opened greenhouse agroenergético in the Seville town of El Coronil is the first of its kind to be installed in Andalusia. The GreenHouse, promoted by APIA XXI, It is used for the cultivation of ornamental plants and mushrooms, which also makes it unique in Europe in this type of production.

The facility has 16.500 square meters of total area and combines the functionality of an agricultural plant for indoor growing with the photovoltaic installation on its cover, with a total of 4.464 power modules and 1 megawatio (MW).

Thus, The Coronil plant has the capacity to generate clean energy to meet demand Annual electricity 450 households, representing a saving of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere of more than 700 tons per year.

In addition, crop production proposed in the glasshouse agroenergético require between 20 and 30 direct jobs, plus indirect created in sectors of the environment, as the plastics industry, agricultural machinery or maintenance services.

APIA XXI, Spanish business group created in 1987 with a staff of more than 600 workers, Andalusia is promoting other such facilities, that they combine sustainable agricultural production and the promotion of renewable energy. Like this, It is building two in Castilblanco de los Arroyos and has projected another in El Coronil, two Villamanrique de la Condesa and another in Aznalcázar, all in Seville.