Site visit: Europe's biggest hybrid solar-hydro project

Enlit on the Road headed Portugal to visit the Alqueva project, a unique hybrid power plant that combines floating solar energy production with hydropower production.
We spoke to Pedro Miguel Oliveira from EDP Geração about the Projects goals and key innovations.
Alqueva stands out for its pioneering approach to hybridisation. It's not just about combining solar and hydro: it's about intelligent management. The project serves as a real-world testing ground for the complementarity between renewable energy production and storage technologies.
Here's how it achieves this:
• The photovoltaic plant, batteries, and hydro are integrated into an intelligent management system;
• The battery storage, with a capacity of around 2MWh, reinforces the project's innovative nature by allowing EDP to explore hydro-solar complementarity;
• The battery uses mature lithium-ion technology, a proven and widely used solution in the global electricity sector.
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[@CubbyTech]

Wanted to see the cleaning robot in action! Maybe it's secret tech. Great use of the space!

[@FlameofDemocracy]

Co-location projects are the key trend of the eco age.

[@thewatersavior]

Seems like an opportunity to set up some retractable mirrors to catch the sun. Awesome. Also.. was there any investigation into using the foredam current to power positioning motors on the raft?

[@ModiPooja]

This doesn't seem to be technology from Ciel & Terre. Did they design their own mounting structures? I was expecting the engineer to elaborate on the environmental assessments they conducted. It's a bit odd to simply conclude that it's great because it offers shelter and then leave.

[@teemu.salminen]

"the biggest artificial lake in Europe"? Akkajaure, Lokka, 5 Dnieper river and couple of Volga's reservoirs... So probably not in the top ten.