Solar Steel supplies 500 MW of its RackSmarT fixed Tilt structure to the largest PV project in Europe.

Solar Steel, division of Gonvarri Steel Services is supplying 500 MW of its RackSmarT fixed tilt structure to the PV Project named Nunez de Balboa, which will become the largest PV plant installed to date in Europe.

The PV Project is located in the municipality of Usagre (Badajoz) and it is owned by IBERDROLA group, and will have an installed peak power of 500MW, supplying clean energy approximately to 250.000 people, more than the combined population of Caceres and Badajoz cities.

A total of 1.430.000 PV modules will be assembled on the Solar Steel structures, which will generate around 832 GWh annually, avoiding the emission to the atmosphere of more than 250.000 tons of CO2. The energy produced will be evacuated to the 400 kV Bienvenida sub-station, located in the same name municipality.

Gonvarri Steel Services is firmly committed with the ecological transition, promoting green energies as it customer does (Iberdrola Renovables), involving local industries in this process. Therefore, this PV Project will create more than one thousand jobs during the construction phase counting on local companies for that purpose.

Additionally, Gonvarri Steel Services is going to manufacture the majority of the Steel structures for the PV Project in HIASA, the plant of the group located in Cancienes, Asturias. This manufacturing plant, founded in 1972, employs more than 400 people and is located 8km from the port of Aviles and 21km away from the port of Gijon. Its industrial activity and dynamism has converted HIASA in a reference for the steel transformation in Asturias and one of the companies that create more employment in the region.

23 April 2019

SOLAR DAILY