Endesa currently constructing over 1.1 GW of wind, solar in Spain

• Spanish electric utility Endesa SA (BME: ELE) stated that it is presently building 27 renewable energy projects in Spain to include over 1,130 MW of new capacity.

These projects are located approximately Aragon, Castile-La Mancha, Extremadura, Andalusia, as well as the Balearic Islands, and also are part of the firm's plan to get to 12,300 MW of solar, wind and hydro power capacity in the Iberian Peninsula by the end of 2024 as well as generate only from renewables in 2040.

Endesa, through its renewables department Enel Green Power Espana, presently handles 8,390 MW of mounted capacity-- 4,746 MW of hydro, 2,546 MW of wind farms as well as 1,098 MW of solar plants, it stated.

Among the continuous wind and solar projects, Endesa highlighted its work on the 49.71 MWp Sedeis V solar farm it had just recently begun constructing next to its decommissioned Andorra thermal nuclear power plant in the region of Aragon.

In Extremadura, 5 new solar farms of around 49.5 MW each are popping up, as well as will certainly come online prior to the end of the year. In southerly Spain, in Andalusia area, the Enel Green Power Espana group is constructing two 50-MWp solar farms and also working with safeguarding permits for a group of 40 solar PV projects.

Apart from these, new wind and also solar projects in Castile-La Mancha will certainly include 497 MW of mounted capacity by the end of the year, the business claimed.