Spanish energy company Iberdrola has completed the construction of its gigantic 500 MW Núñez de Balboa solar project in Spain's western region of Extremadura.
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Gigantic solar farm Nuñez de Balboa in Spain. Source: Iberdrola
The company said that it has received a commissioning permit from the country's Ministry for Ecological Transition and local grid operator Red Eléctrica de España has already commenced energisation tests.
The mega-project is expected to start feeding electricity into the grid at some point in the first quarter of 2020. Iberdrola has invested roughly €300-million in the project, backed by funding from the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO), a Spanish a state-owned bank connected to the Ministry of Economic Affairs.
The installation is not Iberdrola’s only PV mega-project now in development. In June, it revealed plans to build two installations with a total generation capacity of 800 MW of solar near Cuenca, in Spain’s central-southern region of Castilla-La Mancha.
In November, a unit of the Spanish utility commissioned a €2-million lithium-ion energy storage system in the municipality of Caravaca de la Cruz, near Murcia in southeastern Spain.
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