stellantis inside Serbian from a factory formerly known as Fiat Automobili Srbija. Half of Vigo’s population is located in the city of Kragujevac, 140 kilometers from the capital of the country. The company’s boss, Carlos Tavares, visited their facility last spring to deliver the good news: Fiat will assemble the model that will replace the 500Lwhich will be marketed only in electric version, and other future small projects.
The group’s investment will apriori reach 190 million euros in a factory. should not be affected by fluctuations in the electricity supply that the entire Balaidos industrial complex was damaged. With a power of 220 kilovolts (kv), the manager headed by Aleksandar Vucic already started the re-strengthening of the line with two substations In Kragujevac itself and in Kraljevo – they will reach 440 kv.
Stellantis Vigo and the entire network of providers based in the city, Porriño or Mos do not even dream of such an infrastructure. For now, and given that the central government has not guaranteed changes in its investment program, Galicia’s leading export industry will continue connected to a network 132kvwithout too high voltage. Of the more than a hundred factories spread across the European Union, only a dozen – car and pickup truck factories – do not have access to a network of at least 220 kilovolts.
This is a recurring problem not only in Stellantis itself, but also in Ceaga, a cluster that brings together 200 Galician automotive companies. “a critical infrastructure for the competitiveness not only of the largest car factory in Spain, but also for the entire automotive industry and for the city in general”. These are companies that are connected to a power grid that was deemed inefficient due to the large number of power outages it recorded in 2015.
Now and despite the Ministry of Industry agreeing that “supply needs to be strengthened”, they insist on the Ministry of Ecological Transformation. no “missing” shown despite dozens of minor power outages are recorded every year – these are gaps or power outages – and this causes not only the loss of hundreds of vehicles, but also the failure or failure of software, hardware or automation systems.
“It is a very important infrastructure for the competitiveness of not only the largest car factory in Spain, but also the entire automotive industry and the city in general.”
‘Novo Vigo’ substation
this European high voltage networks map – from 220 kv or higher – has not stopped being powered. In the case of Vigo it would only be necessary to build one substation to divert this power from the existing line between Atios (O Porriño) and Pazos de Borbén. In 2015 and known as Novo Vigo, it was budgeted at 66.8 million euros. This very high voltage powers all car factories in Spain, with the exception of Vigo. It also supplies 100% of the German plants with special substations – Crossen or Niederwartha – for Volkswagen plants in Zwickau and Dresden, respectively. Also in the Netherlands up to 380 kilovolts with their infrastructure in Lelystad, Tillburg or Ens substation. In Italy, the “final restructuring project” of the 220 kV electricity grid in various municipalities in the Piedmont region is in the implementation phase. A work that will allow the town of Grugliasco to be connected to very high voltage, thanks to a six kilometer underground cable. In this town near Turin, models of the luxury brand Maserati are collected, a production taken over by the neighboring Mirafiori factory.
Balaidos, on the remaining list
Italy, France, Slovakia, the Czech Republic or Romania, countries where facilities operate with a supply network such as in Balaidos; A list is, in any case, no longer. Industry Minister Reyes Maroto assured last week. set up a working group To meet Stellantis Vigo’s “needs” without being called to any meeting for the time being.
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There is also no news of the Perte VEC (electric and connected vehicle) decision, which the factory headed by Ignacio Bueno finally entered. In this case, Balaídos accepted European funds with Villaverde (Madrid) with an offer of 43m euros.
industry resources, still there is no date to have ultimate Resolution, should indicate which amount of funds.