February 16 (SeeNews) - Kaufland Bulgaria will install rooftop solar systems at five of its hypermarkets by the end of this year, thus bringing their total number to nine, the company said on Thursday.
Two of the new photovoltaic (PV) installations will be completed at hypermarkets in Sofia and the southern town of Petrich by the end of the current month, Kaufland Bulgaria, part of German retail chain Kaufland, said in a press release. It did not provide more information on the total value of the investment and the location of the remaining three projects.
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The planned solar arrays will each meet about a fifth of the annual electricity needs of the hypermarket on which they will be mounted. The company already generates green power from four PV modules at its hypermarkets in Stara Zagora, Dupnitsa, Burgas and Varna.
The retailer plans to mount rooftop solar modules on all of its future local hypermarkets, a company manager told SeeNews last year.
Kaufland Bulgaria, which generates an annual turnover of some 1.7 billion levs ($929.4 million/869.2 million euro), has 63 hypermarkets in 35 cities in the country, including 13 sites in Sofia.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)