Endesa begin on 4 Spanish solar parks amounting to 180MW
- Endesa, through its Enel Green Power España subsidiary (EGPE), has begun building deal with four PV projects in Spain that will have an incorporated ability of 180MW as well as cost EUR125 million (US$ 150 million) to establish.
The Spanish utility is developing 3 50MW parks in the Extremadura region, in the west of the country, that will certainly with each other include around 275,000 bifacial modules.
Slated for conclusion in December 2021, building of these plants will additionally involve the installation of three substations as well as around 33km of high-voltage overhead power lines.
A fourth growth is likewise underway in the southerly area of Andalucía, where a 30.4 MW solar project featuring 70,000 modules results from complete by the end of the year. This will require a brand-new substation and also 2km of underground cabling.
The groundbreaking follows the current magazine of Endesa's latest strategic plan, which will see the utility goal to get to 11.5 GW of set up solar, wind as well as hydropower by the end of 2023. With EGPE, the firm presently manages 7.7 GW of renewables capability in Spain.
Endesa last month disclosed strategies to construct 23 environment-friendly hydrogen projects in Spain powered by virtually 2GW of solar and wind. The EUR2.9 billion program will certainly cause the development of electrolysers with a complete ability of 340MW.
While Italian utility Enel has a 71% rate of interest in Endesa, the last safeguarded a EUR1.21 billion deal in 2016 to obtain 100% of EGPE from Enel Green Power International.
