Acciona Energia gets 458-MWp solar project in Texas

• Spanish renewables pure-player Acciona Energia (BME: ANE) said on Tuesday that it has actually acquired the 350-MW/458-MWp Red-Tailed Hawk solar photovoltaic (PV) project in the US state of Texas.

It claimed it purchased the project from Avondale Solar LLC and Solar Plus Development Inc, 2 firms that established it via a committed affiliate. The purchase rate was not disclosed.

Acciona Energia said the brand-new project, its biggest PV development worldwide currently, will need an investment of some USD 460 million (EUR 402.3 m).

Construction is set to begin in the third quarter of 2022, while full operations can be expected in 2024.

Red-Tailed Hawk will certainly be found in near Houston in Wharton County, and will certainly be connected to the Houston grid. Once up and running, the PV plant will certainly have the ability to create adequate tidy electricity to meet the power demand of 66,500 Texas households, Acciona Energia included.

Red-Tailed Hawk is the 3rd solar PV project for Acciona Energia in the United States. The business is presently developing the 315-MWp Fort Bend solar farm in Texas as well as the 125-MWp High Point plant in Illinois. Somewhere else in the United States, the business runs over 1 GW of wind farms and also the 64-MW Nevada Solar One concentrated solar energy plant.