Costa Rican solar photovoltaic energy company Sibo Energy inaugurated along with Ad Astra Rocket Company a 77-kW project in Liberia, Costa Rica, built with 252 305-watt modules and Kaco new energy inverters.
Monzi Figueres, CCO of Sibo Energy, explained that the solar photovoltaic system generates 100% of the power needed by Ad Astra for experiments in the development of the plasma propulsion engine, as well as other experiments in hydrolysis and Hydrogen production and storage conducted by Ad Astra, while reducing their carbon footprint in approximately 15.3 tons of CO2 per year.
Ad Astra Rocket Company is a Houston-based company, with one of its laboratories in Liberia, Costa Rica. One of Ad Astra’s main developments is a plasma propulsion engine for aerospace applications that could potentially allow for manned-travel to Mars in just 39 days, opposed to 6 to 10 months with the chemical propulsion engines used today. In addition, Ad Astra carries out important developments in practical applications in renewable energy, particularly hydrogen and wind.
“We are thrilled and excited about this important achievement, a major milestone in our path to creating a total ecosystem of renewable energy here in Liberia, which can be later replicated elsewhere,” said former astronaut, Dr. Franklin R. Chang Díaz, President and CEO of Ad Astra Rocket Company.
“The project had a 6-week duration in which engineers from Sibo Energy collaborated with technical staf from Kaco new energy’s U.S. office in San Antonio,” explained Daniel Rojas, COO at Sibo Energy. “The installation is comprised of 252 modules and 7 inverters. The system can be monitored online at any moment to determine power production and other variables of operation.”
“We feel truly honored to collaborate with an organization and a team of professionals who are working so passionately towards a better future,” said Edgar Ugalde, Sibo’s Executive Director.