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- The new plant of the renewable energy subsidiary of Endesa has a capacity of almost 35 MW and can generate 100 GWh / year .
- 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 up the Refurbished Pena Ventosa wind farm with its 35 megawatts (MW) to the network, which has meant an investment of 35.5 million euros.
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. With the connection of this park, Endesa completes all the power allocated to the company in the 2017 Government auctions.
The Los Arcos wind farm, which has 10 wind turbines of 3.5 MW of unit power, will have the capacity to generate more than 100 GWh per year, which will prevent the annual emission into the atmosphere of approximately 66,500 tons of CO 2 .
Enel Green Power Spain has 12 wind farms in Andalusia: 5 in the province of Cádiz (four in Tarifa and one in Vejer), another 5 in Malaga (two in Campillos, one between Campillos and Teba, one in Almargen and one in Sierra de Yeguas), one in Enix (Almería) and one in Padul (Granada).
This renewable capacity is in line with Endesa's strategy of decarbonising its generation mix by 2050. To achieve this, the first milestone of the latest Strategic Plan (2020-2022) will be to reach 10.2 GW of renewable installed capacity by 2022, compared with the 7.4 GW estimated for the end of 2019, with a total investment of about €3.8 billion.
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.
Specifically, in this plant, in which 125 people have worked, the solar panels of the work have been donated to the community for community use, and a painting contest has been organized, among other things. The total investment destined to these shared value creation plans for the local communities located around this park amounts to more than 112,000 euros.
Endesa currently manages more than 7,431 MW of renewable capacity in Spain. Of this figure, 4,701 MW are from conventional hydraulic generation. The rest, more than 2,723 MW, are managed through Enel Green Power España (EGPE) and come from wind (2,291 MW), solar (339 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 about 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.