Solar Cover is partnering with Texathenea, a textile facility in Villena, to deploy one of Europe’s early and largest mega battery projects. The deployment features a two-megawatt-hour storage system, designed to push the industry forward as a reference flagship initiative. The storage capacity, strong enough to power about 500 homes, enables Texathenea to boost energy independence from the grid while leveraging the solar energy produced by nearly 4 MWp of rooftop photovoltaic panels.
With the mega battery enabling self-consumption, Texathenea is shifting its manufacturing approach. The system stores energy during periods of lower electricity prices and draws on it when photovoltaics are less productive or grid electricity costs are higher, according to Solar Roof manager Luis Navarro Buciega.
As a result, the company can plan energy expenditures more efficiently and take greater control over its electricity bill, even amid fluctuations in the energy market.
The mega battery measures six meters in width and weighs about 30 tons. European Union energy efficiency and greenhouse gas reduction programs are supporting this growth, with subsidies covering up to 65 percent and facilitating the competitiveness of these systems against conventional grid energy.
Texathenea is reinforcing its commitment to innovation by advancing self-consumption, a path it began in 2018 with the installation of the largest photovoltaic array in Spain at that time, totaling 2.77 MWp and 8,316 panels. In the first year of operation, the installation produced 21 MWh of renewable energy in a single day.
Following the roof expansion to accommodate 14,000 solar panels across a footprint comparable to five professional football fields, the company has furthered its environmental impact by reducing annual CO2 emissions by approximately 2,196 metric tons, the equivalent of what 2,000 homes would produce in a year.
This success story will be highlighted at the International Energy and Environmental Types Fair, beginning this week. Luis Navarro Buciega, director of Solar Covering, is scheduled to attend the fair to discuss how the energy storage system could disrupt industry practices.
Solar Cover, a firm with over a decade in the sector, has added more than 50 MWp of rooftop photovoltaic capacity to its portfolio. The company has evolved to offer a complete package for photovoltaic self-consumption installations, is fully prepaid, and is tailored to meet each customer’s energy and financial needs, enabling on-site generation and consumption of electricity with the potential for substantial savings on kWh costs up to eighty percent.