Solar module factory to resume production in Portugal - pv magazine International

An investment of around €5 million will allow an old solar panel factory in the Beja district to reopen and create more than 40 new jobs. Galp Energia’s former director of innovation is part of the new team.

May 24, 2021 Pilar Sánchez Molina

The solar module manufacturing facility is located in Moura, in the Beja district.

Image: Ayuntamiento de Moura

From pv magazine Spain

Lux Optimeyes Energy is investing some €5 million in a new factory in the southern Portuguese city of Moura that will manufacture flexible photovoltaic solar panels and lithium batteries.

The factory will occupy the facilities of the old Moura Solar Factory (MFS), owned by Acciona and ProJinko, which was active for 10 years before shutting down production in September 2018 and closing permanently in January 2019, leaving 105 people unemployed.

The group of investors behind the Lux Optimeyes Energy consortium and the municipality, located in the region of Alentejo region in the country's Beja district, last week signed the lease for the former MFS fab and a memorandum of understanding for the execution of the project. Portugal's Minister of Environment and Climate Action João Pedro Matos Fernandes and the Undersecretary of State and Energy João Galamba attended official start of the project.