Bucșani Solar Park

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Bucșani Solar Park
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Location of Bucșani Solar Park
Country Romania
Location Bucșani
Coordinates 44°20′41″N25°40′20″E / 44.34472°N 25.67222°E / 44.34472; 25.67222 Coordinates: 44°20′41″N25°40′20″E / 44.34472°N 25.67222°E / 44.34472; 25.67222
Status Completed
Commission date 2013
Construction cost €15 million
Owner(s) Tinmar
Solar field
Type Flat-panel PV
Power generation
Units operational 41,624
Nameplate capacity 10 MW
Annual net output 18 GWh

Bucșani Solar Park is a large thin-film photovoltaic (PV) power system, built on a 24 ha (59 acres) plot of land located in Bucșani in Romania. The solar park has around 41,624 state-of-the-art thin film PV panels for a total nameplate capacity of 10-megawatts, and was finished in December 2013. [1] The solar park is expected to supply around 18 GWh of electricity per year enough to power some 19,700 average homes. [1]

Bucșani, Giurgiu Commune in Giurgiu County, Romania

Bucșani is a commune located in Giurgiu County, Romania.

Romania Sovereign state in Europe

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the southeast, Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, and Moldova to the east. It has a predominantly temperate-continental climate. With a total area of 238,397 square kilometres (92,046 sq mi), Romania is the 12th largest country and also the 7th most populous member state of the European Union, having almost 20 million inhabitants. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, and other major urban areas include Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Iași, Constanța, Craiova, and Brașov.

A thin film is a layer of material ranging from fractions of a nanometer (monolayer) to several micrometers in thickness. The controlled synthesis of materials as thin films is a fundamental step in many applications. A familiar example is the household mirror, which typically has a thin metal coating on the back of a sheet of glass to form a reflective interface. The process of silvering was once commonly used to produce mirrors, while more recently the metal layer is deposited using techniques such as sputtering. Advances in thin film deposition techniques during the 20th century have enabled a wide range of technological breakthroughs in areas such as magnetic recording media, electronic semiconductor devices, LEDs, optical coatings, hard coatings on cutting tools, and for both energy generation and storage. It is also being applied to pharmaceuticals, via thin-film drug delivery. A stack of thin films is called a multilayer.

The installation is located in the Giurgiu County in southern Romania in Bucșani. The investment cost for the Bucșani solar park amounts to some Euro 15 million. [1]

Giurgiu County County in Sud, Romania

Giurgiu is a county (judeţ) of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in Muntenia, with the capital city at Giurgiu.

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Energy policy of the European Union

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Photovoltaics method of generating electrical power by converting solar radiation into direct current electricity

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Renewable energy commercialization

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References

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