Trend of Key Indicators - Efacec

The year 2009 confi rmed the activity of the Renewable
Energy Unit, focusing on wind, photovoltaic solar,
microgeneration and wave power.
This Unit obtained ISO9001 certifi cation in the
certifi cation audit carried out by APCER, which involved
the: “Marketing & Sales, conception, development,
management and performance of turnkey projects,
production, installation, testing, start-up, maintenance
and technical assistance of electrical power plants which
use a primarily renewable source of energy.
In 2009 the Unit was one of the founding entities of
the TER competence Network, Associação Rede de
Competência em Tecnologias de Energias Renováveis
(Renewable Energy Technology Competence Network
Association).
TER is a non-profi t scientifi c and technical association
whose purpose is “the pursuit of the activity of research,
development and innovation in the area of science
and technology of renewable energies, as well as the
development of solutions in this area, based on the
primary production of knowledge”, bearing in mind the
criterion “the interest of the national industry and its true
capacity to enhance the national or international value
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of the technologies, products and processes developed”
as well as “the existence of basic technical and scientifi c
competences” in Portugal.
Efacec also takes part in project Green Islands, the
objective of which is to design and implement an
innovative energy system with large-scale incorporation
of renewable energies, effi cient management of
energy consumption, implementation of intelligent
energy networks and introduction of electric vehicles,
developing an integrated methodology that responds to
the new challenges for the defi nition of a new paradigm
of energy systems. This methodology will therefore focus
on analyzing the technical, economic and social viability
of the implementation of projects in the Autonomous
Region of the Azores (Portugal).
The unit signed a technological assignment agreement
with GREENPOWER for the production of photovoltaic
solar converters, with unit power of 100 kW and
possibility of modular assembly up to 500 kW. This
second assembly line will be situated in Maia, with the
production of 100 units already estimated for 2009.
This extends the supply of Efacec equipment to turnkey
photovoltaic installations, promoted by the company