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CASTILLA-LA MANCHA, Spain, May 24, 2006
(Refocus Weekly)
ACCIONA Solar is installing 395 solar trackers
that will have a capacity of 2.6 MW when the facility is completed
in July.
The Huerta Solar de la Mancha is located on land belonging to the
municipality of Socuéllamos in central Spain, and the capacity will
represent the largest solar installation in Castilla-La Mancha when
the huertas solares (solar garden) is finished, and the seventh
built by the company with total capacity of 24 MW.
The idea of solar gardens has been developed and patented by ACCIONA
Solar, and consists of small PV facilities belonging to numerous
individual owners on the same site to allow management and
performance of the facility to be optimized by using common
infrastructures and services.
The Huerta Solar de La Mancha covers 19,000 m2 and has 395 solar
trackers of 6.75 kW, every holding 45 photovoltaic modules. The
Buskil k6 trackers were developed by ACCIONA Solar, and are owned by
135 owners, 80% of whom were born or are resident in the town.
The facility will generate 4.4 million kWh a year, sufficient for
1,300 homes, and will displace emission of 4,228 tonnes of CO2
compared with a coal-fired power plant. The environmental impact is
equivalent to the photosynthesis from 211,000 trees.
The production of power will result in annual gross income of Euro
1.85 million for the PV owners, based on the regulated prices that
utilities have to pay for green power purchases. ACCIONA Solar will
contract with local labour to handle maintenance on the facility.
Six solar gardens are located in Navarre, and three more are being
built in Navarre, Castilla-La Mancha and Madrid, for a total
investment of Euro 180 million. The largest project, Milagro, will
have capacity of 9 MW when it is completed, with 858 trackers owned
by 850 residents.
For all seven facilities of 24 MW total, the 3,280 trackers will be
owned by 2,446 local residents.
ACCIONA Solar is part of the ACCIONA Energía Group and claims to be
the leading PV company in Spain with 40% of grid-connected capacity
in the country. ACCIONA has installed 3,800 MW of green power
capacity, with 3,674 MW of wind in 136 windfarms in nine countries.
It has three biomass plants, 59 MW in small hydro facilities, and
has installed 15 MW of solar PV, 19 MW-th of thermal, and it will
construct a solar thermal electric power plant in the U.S.
The company also manufactures 1.5 MW turbines using in-house
technology and produces biodiesel fuel.
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