Iberdrola toasts initially Portuguese PV commissioning

• 12.72 MW Alcochete 2 solar plant is part of a 187MW portfolio protected in auctions kept in 2019

Iberdrola has actually commissioned its initial solar farm in Portugal, Spain, one of several projects it was granted in solar auctions in 2019, completing 187MW.

The 12.72 MW Alcochete 2 PV plant, entailing EUR17.8 m in investment, has greater than 50,500 fixed single-facial photovoltaic modules.

The project created greater than 200 jobs throughout peak building and construction periods, all of which were filled by neighborhood employees.

Iberdrola was the largest winning bidder in lot numbers from the 2019 auction in Portugal.

Alcochete 2 is among three from the auction anticipated to enter commercial procedure throughout this year.

Both others are the 13.51 MW Conde project and the 32.89 MW Alcochete 1 project.

All three are located in the Setúbal district.

On top of that, the Montechoro 1 (11.57 MW), Montechoro 2 (24.95 MW) and Carregado (64.1 MW) projects, awarded in the same auction, remain in the process of getting building permits as well as are scheduled to be commissioned in 2023, at which time Iberdrola's PV capacity in Portugal will certainly complete 187 MW.

In Portugal, Iberdrola serves a big commercial portfolio of customers, as well as has 92MW of wind power in operation.

It has actually also commissioned the Daivões (conventional plant) and Gouvães (pumped-storage plant) hydroelectric plants, which become part of the Támega River gigabattery, one of the biggest energy storage facilities in Europe with 1158MW of capacity.

Furthermore, the future construction of a huge wind farm with organized complete capacity of 400MW, connected to the gigabattery, will convert the complex right into a crossbreed generation plant.