With a capacity of 16 megawatts, 'El Chaparro' will
produce electricity equivalent to the consumption of around
12,000 homes.
The new wind park, located in Guadalajara province (central
Spain), takes the wind power capacity owned by the company
in the region of Castilla-La Mancha to 560 MW.
ACCIONA
Energy has grid connected the El Chaparro wind park, a
16-megawatt facility located in central Spain, the
municipalities of Alcolea del Pinar and Saúca (region of
Guadalajara). It will produce clean energy equivalent to
the electricity consumption of around 12,000 homes.
The wind park, equipped with eight 2-MW wind turbines, is
included in the preliminary allocation register for the
remuneration of special regime plants of the Spanish
Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism.
The new plant will avoid the emission of around 32,500
metric tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere a year in
conventional coal-fired power plants, and it has a cleaning
effect on the air through photosynthesis equivalent to 1.6
million trees. It will also replace fossil fuels equivalent
to almost 20,000 barrels of oil a year.
El Chaparro is the eighteenth
wind park that ACCIONA operates and owns in the
Castilla-La Mancha. Its total capacity in the region is
559.50 MW, distributed between the provinces of Albacete
(341.50 MW, 9 wind parks, Cuenca (96 MW, 5 wind parks),
Ciudad Real (76 MW, 2 wind parks) and Guadalajara (46 MW, 2
wind parks). The total number of wind turbines is 329.
ACCIONA has also installed 32 wind parks for other
customers in the region, with a total capacity of 1,178 MW.
In Spain as a whole ACCIONA owns 164 wind parks, totaling
4,637 MW. In addition to Castilla-La Mancha, the wind power
plants belonging to the Company are located in other
regions: Galicia (40 wind parks), Navarra (27), Valencia
(26), Andalusia (21), Castilla y León (21), Catalonia (5),
Asturias (3), Aragon (2) and the Basque Country (1). For
its customers, ACCIONA has built 32 wind parks in
Castilla-La Mancha, 3 in Castilla y León, 2 in Murcia and 1
in Galicia.
