The Seirios Motorist Service Station in Malakasa operated by Nea Odos motorway is the first fastcharging solar hybrid PV station on Greek motorways that operates by directly connecting the fastchargers to the energy generated by the solar panels, and will be connected with a high-voltage lithium-ion batteries energy storage system in.
This project involves:
- Construction of hangars for the parking lots
- Installation of PV in the parking lots generating approximately 500 kWp total power
- 2 high-power DC chargers in each branch, i.e. 4 chargers of 120 kW each in total
- Hybrid Inverters. When a car has to be charged during the day, the PV-produced electricity is fed to the charger; concurrently, energy that is not utilized by the car chargers is used directly to meet the building's energy requirements of the Malakasa Motorist Service Station. (Seirios).
The most important features of the pioneering station involve the use of specialized hybrid converters capable of providing electricity with or without the HEDNO network. Moreover, the advanced fast chargers can be supplied directly with constant voltage from solar panels or batteries or both at the same time avoiding losses of more than 12% while a special Energy Management System is implemented serving simultaneously the needs of the fast chargers and the self-consumption of the station avoiding the injection of energy into the HEDNO network.
