Endesa is completing deployment of solar projects gained at the auction in 2017

• Endesa, a subsidiary of the biggest electric utility in Spain, has finished 252 megawatts of PV projects in Extremadura, which means all of the 339 megawatts the company gained at the governmental auction 2017 are now tied to electrical grid.

The recent project implementations by Spanish branch of Enel Green Power comprised three facilities in Logrosán and the same quantity in Casas de Don Pedro y Talarrubias. Every system has a 42 megawatt capacity. Altogether they require a €200m investment. The plants are supposed to produce about 500 gigawatts of electricity annually. Another photovoltaic project won by the Spanish energy leader in the auction held in May of 2017, installed in Totana, was finished in September. 

The deployments appear in the framework of Span’s ambition to satisfy Europe’s green energy targets for the coming year. The country, which experienced a lasting moratorium on new solar projects after 2012, has tied more solar plants to power grid in the first three quarters of 2019 (1,541 megawatts) than during the last ten years. Such a bust and boom scenario has caused concern among some industry representatives regarding sustainability of the sector and its new tendency toward gigawatt-sized solutions rather than more challenged smaller projects. 

At the same time, success of deployments by Endesa is going to moderate Spanish mass media statements of ""panic"" regarding hundreds-megawatts-projects won during 2016 and 2017 tenders, which are likely to exceed their completion deadlines. 

Enel was also granted 540 megawatts of wind capacity at the governmental auction in May of 2017. Though only 50 megawatts of the above has been deployed by now, the rest of 490 megawatts are supposed to be installed before the turn of the year. 

The Spanish utility giant plans 8.4 gigawatts of renewable power to be installed by 2021.