Sonnedix powers up 50MW Spanish solar

• The Sonnedix Los Frailes project in Badajoz has actually started commercial operations

Sonnedix has achieved commercial operations at its 50MW Sonnedix Los Frailes solar farm in Spain.

The project, which lies in Badajoz in southwest of Spain, spans 111 hectares of land and connects to the Vaguadas substation.

It is anticipated to create around 102GWh annually, which is the comparable to powering more than 30,000 homes with clean electrical power as well as avoiding roughly 16,000 tons of co2.

Sonnedix Los Frailes was developed with Mytilineos as the primary EPC Contractor and developed by Viridi RE team in partnership with Sonnedix's development team.

Sonnedix said it has over 1GW of capability in Spain, including over 600MW operational, 60MW unfinished and a development pipeline of practically 400MW.

Sonnedix chief executive officer Axel Thiemann said: "Seeing this pertained to fulfillment is terrific, specifically knowing the obstacles our team had to go with these past number of years with the pandemic, supply chain concerns, and also uncertainty.

" Our group was able to take care of misfortune to proceed our commitment to the Spanish market, whose function in the energy transition is remarkable."