The Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) has issued an expression of interest to find landowners who are willing to lease property for the development and construction of megawatt-scale PV power plants.
It has directed the public call at private citizens, private enterprises, and local public entities. Interested landowners have until the end of this year to express interest.
According to Philenews, a Greek-language news site, the minimum offered area will be 30,000 square meters. In a previous call, held in 2017, the minimum area was set at 65,000 square meters.
In 2017, the country's Ministry of Energy, Commerce and Industry announced a new plan to facilitate the development of 212.5 MW of renewable energy, designed to compete in the country’s wholesale electricity market.
According to the International Renewable Energy Agency, Cyprus had an installed PV capacity of 113 MW by the end of 2018. Its solar energy target is 360 MW by 2020.
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Thats great, the land used for constructing solar farms provides a better habitat for wildlife and plants in addition to all the other benefits of renewable energy sources.
All for renewable energy even more so when we have so much sun, but in the right locations
Are there laws in Cyprus stipulating how close to private houses these mega solar farms can be built.
There will be many landowners who can see a big pot of gold leasing the land out to EAC for such projects.
I ask as we have just found out a large solar farm is in process of being looked at with a start date of September that will sit in front of our house some 100mtrs away
Any information would be welcome
I really do not get why people are so unhappy when it comes to having renewable sources of energy so close to their homes. I get why there are downsides such as the noise of windmills, but overall, I’d MUCH rather look to enrich my life with the fact of such awesome tech coming so close to where I live! Would you rather look out over those barren fields, stretches of rock, or a mish-mash of what a bazillion property developers allow themselves to shape your direct environment / neihgbourhood into? And don’t make the nature non-argument, because we all know renewables are exactly aimed at protecting that and there is a LOAD of corresponding means to do so already in existence, under development or bound to be discovered soon enough, such as agrisolar farms. Cyprus should even be MUCH more ambitious wrt RES, rather than be bothered by the concerns of people and / or ridiculous bureaucracy. Let’s GO people!!