MET Group turns sod on 50MW Spanish solar

• Swiss power player has commenced building of Puerto Real 3 which is its very first PV project in Spain

Swiss energy outfit MET Group has started building and construction of its first solar project in Spain, a 50MW project in Cadiz region of Andalusia.

The building and construction will certainly cover a location of nearly 130 hectares in which greater than 88,000 solar panels will certainly be set up.

The Pueto Real 3 solar plant is scheduled to begin commercial operations in the 3rd quarter of 2023.

MET got a 100% risk in the Spanish project at a ready-to-build status in April 2022.

Within MET, a devoted green assets department, offers all the essential competence and support to the renewable development method, with an enthusiastic target of getting to a 1GW mounted capacity renewables portfolio by 2026, thus playing an active role in European energy shift.

MET Group already been established in Spain for over six years with its regional subsidiary, MET Energía España, providing natural gas and also power to Spanish end-customers.

In 2021, MET additionally obtained COGEN Energía España, an integrated operator as well as provider in Spain's CHP (mixed heat and also power) sector.

The construction of the Puerto Real 3 solar power plant will be finished in partnership with CMC Europe, which is accountable for engineering, procurement and building and construction.

Christian Hürlimann, Renewables Chief Executive Officer of MET Group claimed: "We consider Spain as one of the key development markets for our renewables organization, so a number of extra projects are present.

" The Spanish market integrates favourable wind and solar irradiation conditions with a fully grown company ecosystem, robust power system, as well as solid institutional and also legislative background, making it really eye-catching for further investments."