Installation for the production of electricity using photovoltaic panels on the roof of the João Gonçalves Zarco Basic School, in the municipality of Oeiras (Lisbon metropolitan area), belonging to the Coopérnico cooperative. The investment and the production benefits are integrally of the cooperative, which after 10 years will assign the PV plant to the school free of charge.
Rooftop photovoltaic installation for the production of electricity, carried out by the Coopérnico (Coopérnico – Cooperativa De Desenvolvimento Sustentável CRL), a social cooperative that mainly promotes renewable energies. This school is located in Oeiras, in the metropolitan area of Lisbon, west zone. The business model is this: they buy and install the PV plant and take advantage of the production during the first 10 years, and then cede the PV plant to the owner of the floor or roof where it was installed.
This PV plant consists of 210 Polycrystalline / S-Energy SN265 panels, with a total area of 210 m2. The investment has been 51.000 euros, and currently has an annual production of 89.200 kWh, avoiding the estimated production of 57,1 ton/CO2/year. The installed power is 50 kW.
The school is on urban land, and is part of the “Agrupamento de Escolas de Santa Catarina, Oeiras” (school complex). It is bordered to the north by a five-storey residential building of great dimensions, staggered, and otherwise by the rest of the school complex’s facilities. The panels, on the southern skirt of the primary school building roof, are visible only from the upper floors of the residential building, which is at a higher level due to the steep slope of the ground, and always in the background. Its impact on the landscape is therefore very limited.
