This can be a machine translation of Claro Brasil’s press launch
São Paulo, January 26, 2023 — Three extra solar energy vegetation equipped by GreenYellow, with a complete capability of 14.2 MWp, will probably be a part of the “Energia da Claro” program in 2022, an initiative by Claro that appears at the usage of renewables origin and motion to guard the atmosphere in all its operations and installations in Brazil. The photovoltaic models situated within the cities of Macaíba (4.46 MWp), in Rio Grande do Norte, Barra do Jacaré (2.36 MWp) and Ouro Verde (7.37 MWp), each within the state of São Paulo, are a part of a long-term contract between the operator and the French multinational.
In response to Marcelo Xavier, CEO of GreenYellow in Brazil, on the finish of final 12 months, the corporate has already delivered 9 energy vegetation to Claro, with a complete of 48 MWp, equal to an annual manufacturing of 123.1 GWh. As well as, in 2023, the forecast is that 4 extra models with an put in capability of 14.2 MWp will probably be related. “This partnership is essential for GreenYellow because it represents the corporate’s participation in an vital vitality transition program for the shopper. These initiatives strengthen the corporate’s place as an infrastructure participant within the nation”, mentioned Xavier.
The initiative completely meets the idea of Claro’s program, as a result of it ought to generate 28.3 GWh of vitality per 12 months, an quantity equal to the consumption of greater than 14 thousand homes, which is able to be capable of keep away from emissions of two,800 thousand tons of CO² across the similar. time.
For Hamilton Silva, infrastructure director of Claro, the partnership between the businesses is vital as a result of it contributes to the acceleration of the distant self-consumption program carried out by the operator. “The entrance of photo voltaic vitality represents a major fraction of ‘Energia da Claro’ and GreenYellow that serves us, with vegetation specifically developed based on our wants, in lots of areas of the nation since starting. A lot of the success that Claro has overcome within the vitality sector is because of the relationship of belief that we’ve got constructed with companions like GreenYellow”, mentioned Silva.
Carried out in 2017, the ‘Energia da Claro’ program is taken into account one of many largest distributed vitality era applications within the nation amongst non-public corporations. Presently, the 70 vegetation deliberate within the initiative provide greater than 20 thousand client models and serve greater than 60% of Claro’s antennas with renewable vitality.
About GreenYellow
GreenYellow makes a speciality of Vitality Effectivity, Photo voltaic Vitality, Commercialization and Vitality Administration. From French origins, the corporate has operations in sixteen nations and has an Vitality Effectivity portfolio with greater than 2650 initiatives applied worldwide, greater than 1 thousand of them in Brazil , the place it has been working since 2013. GreenYellow’s vitality effectivity initiatives a complete of 230 GWh, sufficient to energy greater than 118,000 properties a 12 months. In photo voltaic vitality, it has greater than 60 vegetation below development or working, with a complete of 150 MWp of put in capability. Extra data: Hyperlink.
About Claro
Claro is the chief in Telecommunications in Latin America and one of many largest multiservice operators in Brazil, current in all areas of the nation. It’s current in additional than 4,200 cities in Brazil and its networks present providers to greater than 96% of the inhabitants. Claro provides built-in connectivity, leisure, productiveness and digital providers options in a very convergent method, on a number of mounted and cell platforms. In 2019, the corporate created beOn Claro, its innovation hub, to speed up, leverage and join innovation inside and outdoors the corporate. Claro is the chief in pay TV, broadband and the quickest rising operator in cell providers. By way of Embratel, it additionally leads the company providers phase, which incorporates cloud, telecom, IT and community and utility safety choices. It’s a chief in connection velocity, in cell telephones and residential broadband, with ultra-speeds. Claro is a part of América Móvil, which has a presence in 25 nations, in Latin America and in addition in Europe and america.
