Mocay, Pascual’s coffee brand, already has its first photovoltaic facility in Navarra. This infrastructure, developed by the energy company EDP, is located on the roof of the firm’s roastery in Tajonar. The photovoltaic facility has an output of 120 kWp and will be able to produce 148 MWh of solar power per year, which could approximately supply the annual average consumption of almost 40 households.

The facilities have a total area of 575 m2 and are made up of more than 220 photovoltaic panels. The self-consumption through this plant will reduce the consumption of Mocay’s network by 48%, which translates into a 41% reduction of the billing. Moreover, it will avoid the annual emission of around 40 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, which implies a positive impact, similar to the one that would be produced by almost 3000 new trees.

The plant has a system of monitorization of the production and consumption, which will allow, by access through the web platform, to control at all times and in real time the state of the facility, check how much it produces, look up the historic data or get to see the reduction of the consumption.

Thus, Pascual and EDP strengthen their partnership. Both companies concluded the first Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) signed in Spain, enhancing their commitment with sustainability and renewable energies. Grupo Pascual is a family-owned company with a wide-ranging portfolio of food and beverage brands, which accelerates the climatic action, promotes the resources protection, and boosts the circular innovation, through brands, which provide a positive environmental differential.

Pascual’s operations director, Roberto Zapata, has explained that this project ratifies the engagement “with sustainability and with the use of green energies as a cornerstone for the future of the company”.

To the Large Accounts, State and International EDP sales director, Javier Flórez, “this project, with a reference company like Calidad Pascual, confirms EDP’s commitment to helping their clients to find ways to reduce their energetic costs as well as to joining them in their strategy of decarbonization”.

The elaboration of the self-consumption photovoltaic project was carried out by EOSOL, expanding this way the services provided by EDP in engineering, work supervision or self-consumption projects.

Self-consumption is one of the energy solutions with more saving potential, in households as much as in firms and industries. Furthermore, it has a positive impact and revitalizes the economy and the employment.