Spain's Ecoener cuts ribbon at 100-MW wind, solar complex in Canary Islands
- Spanish renewables developer and power producer Grupo Ecoener SAU (BME: ENER) on Thursday inaugurated a 100-MW wind and also solar farm complicated on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain.
The complicated integrates eight wind farms as well as 12 solar PV plants that will certainly work as a hybrid. The firm stated it had spent EUR 125 million (USD 124.3 m) in the project.
The entire plan became the biggest renewable energy facility on the Canary Islands, according to Ecoener as well as the Gran Canaria regulating authority. With previous efforts added, Gran Canaria has come to be the second island in the archipelago to boast a high infiltration of renewables, just behind the island of El Hierro, Gran Canaria's leader Antonio Morales told the regional media.
El Hierro, the smallest of the Canary Islands, can choose days at once counting entirely on renewable resource thanks to the Gorona del Viento wind powered pumped-storage hydropower plant.
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