Opdenergy seals 750MW Spanish solar supply offer

• 10-year power purchase arrangement with unnamed European financial investment grade utility

Solar as well as onshore wind programmer Opdenergy has safeguarded a 750MW power purchase contract (PPA) to supply electricity from 17 solar farms in Spain to an unnamed European financial investment grade utility.

The 10-year PPA will deliver greater than 1 terrawatt-hour of electrical energy a year, the business said.

Opdenergy said it is continuing to develop the solar plants with the purpose of starting construction during the first fifty percent of 2022.

The projects will certainly be located approximately Teruel, Zaragoza, Badajoz, Cuenca and also Valladolid.

This agreement is added to the PPAs nearby the company during the initial fifty percent of the year, as well as the PPAs of the running properties, making an overall of 1.4 GW of capacity dedication in Spain.

Opdenergy currently has a large portfolio of protected long-lasting PPAs completing approximately 3GW of devoted capacity in various markets.

These PPAs cover the 584MW of running capacity as well as near the 2.2 GW of future projects, across the various countries in which it operates.

Opdenergy president Luis Cid said: "The application of all these projects in Spain represents a really vital increase for the decarbonization of the country while assisting to improve the economic climate of different areas of Spain.

" With this new turning point we settle our position as one of one of the most important independent producers in the renewable resource industry in Spain."