Contract awarded for 120-MW solar project at Madrid airport

• Spanish airport driver Aena SME SA (BME: AENA) has claimed that it has actually granted a contract for the execution of a 120-MW/142.42-MWp solar project at Madrid airport to domestic building contractor Construcciones San Jose.

The specialist was granted EUR 99.1 million (USD 107.6 m) to give design, purchase, construction, commissioning and also maintenance services, and was offered a due date of 50 months to complete the work.

The setup procedure will certainly call for greater than 235,000 PV modules, or enough to cover some 353 football pitches, according to Aena. The panels will certainly be organized in arrays on different plots within the premises of Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas Airport.

As soon as in operation, the solar energy systems will certainly be capable of producing some 212 GWh annually.

The campaign becomes part of Aena's Photovoltaic Plan, which the airport driver launched in 2020 with the aim of protecting 100% renewable power supply for its network by 2026.

There is another solar project in the works at the Madrid-Barajas Airport. That solar plant will supply 7 MW of power for self-consumption usage in 2023, when it results from be commissioned, Aena included.