{"id":39629,"date":"2024-07-25T08:11:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T06:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/?p=39629"},"modified":"2024-07-18T18:14:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T16:14:09","slug":"geogreen-inaugurates-a-new-photovoltaic-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/?p=39629","title":{"rendered":"Geogreen inaugurates a new photovoltaic plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Geogreen launches EUR 10 million investment plan to further increase the sustainability of RadiciGroup companies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Geogreen and RadiciGroup<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"> are speeding up their <strong>photovoltaic development with the inauguration of a new solar plant in the Municipality of Isola Dovarese in the Province of Cremona. <\/strong>Participating at the official ribbon cutting were the <strong>Geogreen shareholders including President Angelo Radici,<\/strong> the <strong>mayor of the Municipality of Isola Dovarese<\/strong> and other local officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">The photovoltaic plant is located in an area previously occupied by a RadiciGroup production site inactive since 2005. After demolition and requalification work, the land was sold to Geogreen, the sole renewable energy supplier for RadiciGroup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">The solar plant, which has been built taking into account environmental and landscape requirements without using any additional land, extends over a surface area of <strong>40 thousand square metres and consists of over 5,000 photovoltaic panels with installed power of about 4 MW and estimated annual production of about 5.5 million kWh, <\/strong>corresponding to the annual consumption of about 2,000 families. <strong>One hundred percent of the energy produced will be used by RadiciGroup<\/strong>, thus preventing the potential emission to the atmosphere of over 2,500 metric tons of CO2 per year that would be generated by the procurement of a comparable amount of energy from non-renewable sources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Geogreen, which until yesterday was focused on producing renewable hydroelectric energy at its 6 power stations, has now implemented its <strong>diversification plan with the production of solar energy <\/strong>at its new plant in Isola Dovarese. Therefore, <strong>Geogreen<\/strong> has confirmed its growth strategy in renewable energies backed by a <strong>EUR 10-million three-year investment plan<\/strong>, already approved by its Board of Directors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Angelo Radici, President of Geogreen,<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"> stated:<em> &#8220;The inauguration of this photovoltaic plant is an important step in our commitment to sustainability and energy transition. Investing in renewable energies is essential to reduce environmental impact and ensure a more sustainable future for our companies, our region and local communities, which we are proud to be part of.\u201d <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">The photovoltaic panels in our new plant use solar tracking technology and are bifacial, so as to increase productivity by 20% compared to traditional solar systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">\u201c<em>Our investment in the construction of the Isola Dovarese plant was EUR 4 million,\u201d <\/em><strong>Massimo De Petro, CEO of Geogreen<\/strong>, said. <em>\u201cAs part of the project, Geogreen has included certain work for the benefit of the Municipality di Isola Dovarese: the donation of a portion of the former industrial site to the municipality as a storage area for various materials, the installation of a wall charging unit for electric vehicles and the installation of a 16-kilowatt photovoltaic system on the roof of the municipal warehouse to cover a portion of the municipal government\u2019s energy consumption. What\u2019s more, a 25,000-square metre area adjacent to the solar plant will be retained as a green space, a \u2018green lung\u2019 for the local community.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geogreen and RadiciGroup are speeding up their photovoltaic development with the inauguration&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-39629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plas-tv-meldungen-auf-der-startseite-unterhalb-slider","category-plast-tv-textmeldungen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39631,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39629\/revisions\/39631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39629"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=39629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}