Acciona Energy is to supply 100% renewable electricity to the Teatro Real opera house in Madrid, Spain, under a five-year deal.
The €3.78m supply contract will run from now until February 2024 and will result in the delivery of about 7 gigawatt-hours of electricity.
The deal is also certified by the Spanish National Markets and Competition Commission
Acciona has also renewed its contract to supply clean power to the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid from February to December 2019.
The contract will result in approximately 10.9GWh a year of renewable energy being delivered to the museum.
Acciona Energy management director Santiago Gomez Ramos said: “We are pleased to work with such emblematic entities as the Teatro Real and the Reina Sofia to contribute to the decarbonisation of the culture sector through clean and competitive energy supplies, which will undoubtedly please the thousands of people that visit their facilities.”
The company also supplies renewable electricity to other major cultural institutions in Spain, such as the Museo Nacional del Prado and the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza.
It has also marketed clean energy to the National Library and eighteen museums that come under the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.