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Wind park Los Llanos
- The new plant of the renewable energy subsidiary of Endesa has a capacity of 20 MW, can generate 78 GWh/year and has received an investment of 23 million euros.
- This development is in response to Endesa's strategy of decarbonising its generation mix by 2050, with a progressive reduction in emitting technologies and a commitment to renewable growth to reach 10.2 GW of installed renewable capacity in 2022, with an investment of 3,800 million euros.
Enel Green Power España (EGPE), Endesa's renewable energy subsidiary, has connected the Ampliación los LLanos wind farm with a capacity of 20 megawatts (MW) to the grid, which has been developed in the municipalities of Cogollos and Hontoria de la Cantera in the province of Burgos and has entailed an investment of 23 million euros.
José Bogas, CEO of Endesa, said that “Endesa is already finalising the connection to the grid of the 879 renewable MW awarded in the 2017 tender, which demonstrates the company's determination to fulfil the commitments acquired in the Tenders. This represents a further step in Endesa's commitment to clean energy production, a crucial pillar of the national energy transition policy”.
EGPE was awarded 540 MW of wind power and 339 MW of solar energy at the government auctions held in May 2017, with a total investment of more than 800 million euros. The company has now connected more than 500 MW to the grid and is finalising the construction and connection of the remaining wind generation projects, which will be complete by the end of this year.
The park, which will be connected by the existing EGPE substation in Cogollos, will be equipped with ten turbines of two megawatts of unit power, which, together, will prevent the annual emission of around 51,500 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.
During the construction work, which involved 60 people, the "Sustainable Construction Site" model of Enel Green Power was applied. This includes the installation of photovoltaic solar panels to cover part of the energy needs during the work. In addition, water saving measures were adopted by installing deposits and rain collection systems. Once the work is finished, both the photovoltaic panels and the water saving equipment will be donated to the municipality for public use. The originality of this project also lies in the use of various innovative tools and techniques. In this regard, the company has tested the use of a prefabricated foundation for one of the ten wind towers, therefore saving construction time and reducing the environmental impact of the project.
This renewable capacity is in line with Endesa's strategy of decarbonising its generation mix by 2050, a process for which, according to the latest Strategic Plan (2020-2022), the milestone of reaching 10.2 GW of renewable installed capacity in 2022 has been set, as opposed to the 7.4 GW estimated for the end of 2019, with a total investment of some 3,800 million euros.
Endesa follows a facility development model that encompasses actions to create social value for the environments in which they are built, the so-called Creating Shared Value (CSV) model. Specifically, the project’s CSV actions have prioritised the incorporation of local labour, as well as locally hiring catering services and workers' accommodation.
Endesa currently manages more than 7,077.8 MW of renewable capacity in Spain. Of this figure, 4,710 MW are from conventional hydraulic generation. The rest, more than 2,367.8 MW, are managed through EGPE and come from wind (1,937.8 MW), solar (337 MW), mini-hydro (79 MW) and other renewable energy sources (14 MW).
Enel Green Power, the global renewable energy business line of the Enel Group, to which Endesa belongs, is dedicated to the development and operation of renewables worldwide, with a presence in Europe, America, Asia, Africa and Oceania. Enel Green Power is a global leader in the green energy sector with a managed capacity of around 46 GW in a generation combination that includes wind, solar, geothermal and hydroelectric energy, and is at the forefront of the integration of innovative technologies in renewable energy power plants.