The energy Iberdrola has received the environmental permit for its first repowering in Spain, through the Molar del Molinar wind farm, in Castilla-La Mancha, the company reported.
In addition, the energy company continues with the procedures to repower another onshore wind farm in this autonomous community, that of Isabela, which will reduce the number of wind turbines installed in the region by 117 and increase the energy production of the facilities on average by 30 %.
Specifically, the machines used in the repowering will have a unit power that is up to six times that of the first wind turbines installed in Spain more than two decades ago. In this way, the two onshore wind farms in the region will go from having 139 wind turbines to 22.
Launched in 2001, Molinar’s 49.5 megawatt (MW) Molar park supplies 29,500 homes with clean energy, and will have 11 Vestas 4.5 MW wind turbines, 64 less than the current 75 of 660 kilowatts ( kW).
For its part, the 48 MW Isabela wind farm will go from 64 750 kW wind turbines to 11 Vestas wind turbines: six of 4.5 MW and another five of 4.2 MW. In total, 26,000 families can consume emission-free energy thanks to this park.
The projects are expected to generate an impact on the national economy both in their dismantling with the hiring of the Coruña company Invenergy Huso for the Molar del Molinar park and in the construction, with companies such as the Marco group (Huesca) and Vázquez y Reino (A Coruña) like speciesists or the Salamanca company Tecinsa for the construction of both substations.
Likewise, during the work process, companies and labor from the area will be counted, contributing to the local economy, such as Sidys from Albacete for the dismantling of the PE Isabela or the manufacture of wind turbine blades, manufactured in Daimiel (Ciudad Real ).
The initiative is part of the first call for aid from the Circular Repowering program, granted by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge through the Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving (IDAE). In total, the aid granted for these two facilities amounted to 22.71 million euros.
Increase efficiency
Repowering makes it possible to maximize energy production and increase the efficiency of wind farms. The process consists of replacing the old turbines with more advanced and powerful ones. These will produce more energy than the previous ones, so fewer units will also be needed.
In addition, there will be less impact on the landscape, which will contribute significantly to the efficiency and sustainability of energy generation.
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