Vestas and TagEnergy have reached an agreement to develop a 220MW wind portfolio in Castilla y Leon, Spain.
The joint venture will see Vestas acting as lead developer, while TagEnergy will draw on its experience developing wind farms to determine and the most cost-efficient model.
TagEnergy will also use its battery energy storage systems (BESS) expertise, gained through more than 270MW of BESS under construction in the UK, to lead potential hybridisation of the projects to help stabilise the grid.
The co-development agreement in Spain deepens the already successful relationship between the Portugal-based independent power producer and Vestas, which began with the 756MW Golden Plains Wind Farm East, stage one of TagEnergy’s 1300MW Golden Plains Wind Farm project in Victoria, Australia.
TagEnergy appointed Vestas as the lead engineering, procurement and construction provider, and long-term service and maintenance supplier for the first stage of the project.
TagEnergy Deputy CEO, Jean-Baptiste Fournier, said: “Spain is an increasingly important part of TagEnergy’s family of projects as we work towards a renewables dominated energy future.
“While these are our first wind projects in Spain, we are already developing two solar PV plants in Murcia in the south-east, and the 100MW Tabiella BESS project in Asturias in the country’s north-west.”