50 mw solar park

[Reyntj]

https://in-cyprus.philenews.com/insider ... -security/

Some great news...
Surprised i saw it in the greek press

Makes you question how come they are.not making more out if this...

Maybe the output might just be for industry...

[waddo]

That is good news, probably brought about because the undersea cable project from Turkey has been delayed by the EU - again - and it looks like it will take at least another 18 months before any application to approve the cable will be put forward again. One way of getting around the problem is just to build the solar farm!!

[MnM]

"Real world" benchmarks on existing Solar Farms across the EU and UK show 1MW generally powers 300 - 400 homes. Based on that and excluding industry, a 50MW Solar Farm would power 15,000 - 20,000 homes. Although no official count has been published, population data for TRNC suggests roughly 120,000 - 130,000 households. Still, it's a step in the right direction, as would be the corporates paying their energy bills.

[kibsolar1999]

"Real world" benchmarks on existing Solar Farms across the EU and UK show 1MW generally powers 300 - 400 homes. Based on that and excluding industry, a 50MW Solar Farm would power 15,000 - 20,000 homes. Although no official count has been published, population data for TRNC suggests roughly 120,000 - 130,000 households. Still, it's a step in the right direction, as would be the corporates paying their energy bills.

dont forget that the household electric consumption in Cyprus and many other southerly countries are often higher as in EU /UK, as heating and cooling often is done with electricity (eg, ac units).
most of the cyprus homes would need a PV installation in the range of 4-5 kWp (approx 6800 to 9000kWh a year), but also do not forget that solar works on sun daytime only and the 4-5 kWp just reflects the total energy production vs total energy needs (eg in a netmetering system).
so, say, (just) the 125.000 households in TRNC would need, say, 600 to 700 MWp PV installation from which , say, 300-500 MW are used instantly daytime and the "excess" would need to go into a battery storage to serve the night, which most probably needs to be a 400MW x at least 5-6 hrs = 2000MWh battery storage. this you only can finance by putting electric cost per unit up, eg, 1 or 2 lira per kWh.
who (party, gov, president) wants to initiate that?

[benjaminbutton]

kibsolar is the real expert here I realise, but I have to question "sun daytime only." I'm sure I've read somewhere that more electricity can still be generated by daylight rays. I know that because nearly 40 years ago, some friends of mine in North Norfolk had four panels on their bungalow roof and even in dull sunless days they had hot water. Obviously not a in mid winter, then they just switched on the immersion.

[kibsolar1999]

kibsolar is the real expert here I realise, but I have to question "sun daytime only." I'm sure I've read somewhere that more electricity can still be generated by daylight rays. I know that because nearly 40 years ago, some friends of mine in North Norfolk had four panels on their bungalow roof and even in dull sunless days they had hot water. Obviously not a in mid winter, then they just switched on the immersion.

well yes.. day or daylight... but it is a difference whether the sun radiation is 1000W per m² (full sun) or 100 W during a cloudy day or close to zero during a rainy day.
the calculation for PV systems are quite easy (more or less..):
full sunshine, 25 degree panel temperature = 100% output, 100 W radiation = 10%.
PS: it might be that your friends had hot water, but how much?