Statkraft to construct 234MW Spanish solar

• 4 PV projects are co-located within an eight-kilometre radius of each other in the Cadiz area

Statkraft is to spend EUR200m to construct 4 new solar plants in southern Spain amounting to 234MW.

The projects are co-located within an eight-kilometre distance of each other in the Cadiz region.

Statkraft has a large solar pipe in Spain, aiding the nation fulfill its ambitious electrification and also climate targets, including the development of 3GW of solar power annually till 2030 laid out in the National Energy and also Climate Plan (NECP).

Statkraft will be the engineering, purchase as well as building (EPC) professional for the projects and is additionally anticipated to accomplish procedures and also maintenance (O&M) as well as possession monitoring solutions for a preliminary regard to one decade.

In December 2020, Statkraft (then running under Solarcentury) got building and construction authorizations for 3 of the four intended solar farms, Malabrigo, El Yarte and Arenosas.

The 4th, La Guita, has ecological licenses and also remains in the procedure of obtaining a last building permit decision due July 2021.

A local employment contract has been entered into with the San Jose del Valle town council in association with three of these plants.

This agreement includes the development of a training and also work promo plan and also will see 500 employment opportunities created throughout the height of the building and construction phase.

Birgitte Ringstad Vartdal, executive vice head of state European wind and also solar at Statkraft, claimed: "I enjoy that we have actually dedicated to investing in the whole building of these four brand-new solar plants in Cadiz.

" Our recent acquisition of Solarcentury in November 2020 further positioned Spain as a major market for Statkraft's solar impact going forward and also the firm's total approach is to establish 8GW of solar and wind power by 2025.

" Solar projects in Spain, like these four farms in Cadiz, will play an essential function in Statkraft's initiatives to attain this."