The Romanian OMV Petrom oil and gas supplier majority-owned by Austrian business OMV has installed PV systems on the rooftops of 40 gas stations in Romania.
The company said it invested around €1.3 million in the new systems, which will generate around 10% of the power needs of each gas station. Annual power generation from each of the arrays has been estimated at around 30,000 kWh.
“We are planning to raise the number [of] our gas stations powered by solar to 78 by the end of this year,” said OMV Petrom executive Radu Capraum.
The company said measures it has adopted since 2010 to reduce its carbon footprint have already secured a 22% reduction in CO2 emissions and it aims to reduce them by a further 27% by 2025.
OMW Petrom entered the renewable energy business in 2010 with the acquisition of a wind farm in Romania.
This article was amended on 18/05/20 to clarify the 30,000 kWh annual generation figure is for each petrol station array, not an aggregated return from all of them. The picture caption was amended to state the company plans to install a further 38 systems, rather than 37, as previously stated.
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30.000kWh per year can do a 30kW PV array. But for 1.3 Million ?
Hi Jozef, the €1.3 million is the figure the company said it has invested in the 40 systems installed so far. The 30,000 kWh annual generation figure is for each of the systems, not all of them and the copy has been amended to make that clear. Thanks for keeping us on our toes.
As a Hungarian OMV station owner we installed Solar as well. Our own investment, not just for 10% of our need. We installed 50kWp array on single axis tracking system. We currently produce more energy than we use.
It will provide enough energy for a new 75kW DC fastcharger operation.
The Article lacks some information: the pv arrays will produce more than 30,000kWh in each (!) filling station so each filling station was equipped with a pv generator of about 30kWp. 33 omv branded and 7 petrom branded filling stations were equipped with pv (the text below the image states 37 stations might be faulty)
Hi Florian,
You are absolutely right and the copy in the story and picture caption have now been amended accordingly.