RWE is making good progress in expanding its solar business in Spain: having last year kicked- off the construction for two solar farms in the Province of Guadalajara, the company is now realising a ground-mounted photovoltaic (PV) plant with a planned capacity of 10 megawatts (MW) in south west of Spain.
Bifacial high-performance solar modules
Early construction works for the solar farm Las Vaguadas in the province of Badajoz have already kicked-off. The installation of around 20,000 solar panels is expected to start in late summer on an area of about 21 hectares. In addition, RWE is constructing the solar farms Casa Valdes and Puerta del Sol, each with a capacity of 44 MW.
For all three solar projects, RWE is using bifacial high-performance modules. The advantage: the bifacial cells are embedded in a double-sided glass-module by which the solar radiation can be absorbed from both sides – the front and the back of the module. This will help to increase the production. Once all three solar farms are completed in the first quarter of 2023 they will produce enough green electricity to supply the equivalent of 68,000 Spanish homes.
Strong renewables footprint in Spain
RWE has gained considerable experience in Spain and already operates onshore wind farms with a total capacity of more than 440 MW in the country. The company is also involved in a PV plant in the Spanish province of Toledo and in the solar thermal power station Andasol 3.
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As part of its “Growing Green” growth strategy RWE is massively stepping up the paceand is investing €50 billion gross in its core business globally in this decade. That means an average of€5 billion gross each year for offshore and onshore wind, solar, batteries, flexible generation and hydrogen. In onshore wind and solar, RWE is expanding its installed capacity from more than 7 gigawatts to 20 gigawatts by 2030. (hcn)
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