An aerial view of Hotel Mykonos showing the large building, pool, and solar panels in the parking lot

The Green Energy Project Through Solar Panels

On May 10th, 2016, ReFeel Panama celebrated the connection to a photovoltaic power station placed over the roof and the parking lot of Hotel Mykonos, located in Santiago de Veraguas. This 512.20 kWp solar-powered generation plant consist of 1970 photovoltaic models, with this being the first hotel in Panama and Central America capable of generating this quantity of energy.

Athanasiadis Group, taking environmental responsibility and awareness of the high cost of electrical energy into account, decided to invest in diverse energy-saving methods. The size of this photovoltaic power station represents a yearly reduction of greenhouse effect gases equivalent to the pollution generated by 90 vehicles or the CO2 generated by consuming 53,631 gallons of gasoline per year. This plant will also allow the hotel to save about 68% of their electric energy bill, based on the analysis of consumption in 2015 and solar radiation studies made by the NASA.