Iberdrola España promotes its first solar community in Barcelona
- The residents of the municipality of Rubí will be able to access the clean energy generated by the photovoltaic system located on the roof of the Ruda Ebenisteria i Fusteria warehouse.
- This infrastructure will allow a hundred families in the area to enjoy the advantages of self-consumption without the need for their own installation or investment.
Iberdrola España is to promote its first solar community in Rubí (Barcelona) in the municipality and in the province. This installation, which will be located on the roof of the warehouse of the company Ruda Ebenisteria i Fusteria, will allow local residents to benefit from the advantages of renewable self-consumption, without the need for their own installation or investment, as Iberdrola España will carry it out.
This form of community self-consumption allows users to share the 100% renewable energy generated from a single photovoltaic installation located in the vicinity of their home (within a maximum of two kilometres). The installation consists of 140 panels with a total power of 64.4 kilowatts (kW), enough to produce 93 MWh annually, and will prevent the emission of around 515 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere over the next 30 years.
Thanks to this solar community, a hundred families in Rubí will be able to participate in it and save on their electricity bills by consuming part of the energy produced by this installation locally. For its part, the company Ruda Ebenisteria i Fusteria, a pioneer in installing such a system in the city, will be able to cover up to 35% of its electricity consumption.
For Juan Miguel Bailón, Iberdrola España's sales representative in Catalonia, "this project is a very important milestone and reflects the company's commitment to local, sustainable and innovative actions in Catalonia. We are proud to be able to offer the residents of Rubí renewable and zero-kilometre energy for their homes".
Users can calculate the economic and environmental savings and join the solar community through Solar Communities - Iberdrola España.
External link, opens in new window. This is the third installation of these characteristics that the company has promoted in Catalonia, where it already has one in operation in Girona and another that will begin operating shortly in Cassà de la Selva (Girona).
Promotion of self-consumption
Furthermore, as a result of its commitment to self-consumption, Iberdrola España has improved the remuneration of its customers' surpluses and thanks to innovation in energy products, self-consumers with Iberdrola España plans can value their surpluses beyond the energy term, making it possible to have a bill of zero euros and now also benefit from the value of the surpluses in another home of the same owner.
Iberdrola España leads the photovoltaic self-consumptionExternal link, opens in new window. market in Spain, managing 40% of the country's self-consumption customers. As part of its commitment to accelerating the energy transition and developing new products to improve efficiency and energy savings, in 2015 the company became the first company in its sector to integrate self-consumption solutions into its range of services.
The company has established itself as the benchmark company in self-consumption and, through Smart Solar, External link, opens in new window. offers services for all types of customers, from domestic consumers to large industrial customers.
The collective self-consumption solutions developed by Iberdrola España have made self-consumption available to any customer, whether or not they have their own roof. Customers in this segment also benefit from the Solar Plan, External link, opens in new window. a competitive electricity tariff during the hours when there is no sun, which is when they need to consume energy from the grid, as during the day they self-supply from their own installation.
Self-consumption solar systems can save 30% on annual bills in the case of residents' associations; 50% for companies and businesses; and up to 70% in single-family homes. These savings are produced in three ways: the energy produced by the installation that the user does not have to buy, the compensation for the surplus energy not consumed that is fed into the grid and the savings due to lower taxes.