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Elecnor is to build, on a turnkey basis, a 20 Megawatt photovoltaic solar power system in the town of Trujillo, Cáceres. The solar power system, which goes by the name of La Magascona, will be owned by Fotowatio Energía Solar and will cover an area of around 100 hectares. The project will be sub-divided into 200 installations each of 100 kW in size and involves a planned investment of around 150 million euros. Atersa, a subsidiary of the Elecnor Group will supply the more than 120,000 solar modules with which the system will be fitted. Each of these will be mounted on a single-axis solar tracking structure designed by Powerlight Corporation of the United States, helping them to collect solar radiation more effectively.

The solar infrastructure modules will generate low tension electrical energy which will be transformed up at the transformation centres distributed around the complex. An underground medium tension network will supply the power to a substation which will then modify it to go onstream within the distribution grid. The quantity of energy produced each year at La Magascona will be the equivalent of that consumed by 20,000 Spanish households, and will avoid annual emissions of more than 42,000 tonnes of CO2. The work, which will involve more than 350 employees and specialists, is expected to be completed at the end of 2007. This solar facility will have more than twice the power of the largest currently in operation anywhere in the world, in Bavaria, Germany, which has 10 MW of power, and also the largest currently under construction, in Serpa, Portugal, with 11 MW.

The La Magascona plant will see the Elecnor Group , one of Spain's leading companies in the field of project planning and integrated management and infrastructure development, further strengthen its firm commitment to renewable energy, consolidating the leading position in the development, construction and operation of projects of this type which it enjoys thanks to its presence in numerous wind, solar and biocombustible power projects.

For its part, Fotowatio Energía Solar will establish itself as one of Spain's leading operators in the field of renewable energy, through its role in an ambitious project which aims to reach a level of 50 MW installed power by 2008. This expansion will take place through the development of its own operations and through the acquisition of solid projects now in an advanced stage of development. Alongside photovoltaic solar energy, Fotowatio is also analysing projects using other technologies based on renewable sources, such as thermoelectric solar and biodiesel power.

Source: Elecnor

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