Iberdrola España will install six battery energy storage systems (BESS) with a combined capacity of 150MW in Spain.
Each project will generate more than 100 green jobs, including the construction and operation phases, the company said.
The six new batteries have been recognised as Strategic Projects for Economic Recovery and Transformation in the company’s renewable energy, green hydrogen and storage division, and will receive €37.5m in funding.
The assets will have lithium-ion technology and will be installed as hybrid technology together with renewable energy sources (in this case with solar); so the PV plant and BESS will share the same connection point.
The projects will be built in Castilla y León, Extremadura, Castilla La Mancha and Andalusia, and each battery will have 25MW of power and a capacity of 50MWh.
In Castilla y León, a BESS will be installed in Revilla Vallejera (Burgos), where Iberdrola España completed its first hybrid wind-solar plant in Spain in 2023.
Extremadura will have two new batteries, with Iberdrola installing two assets in the province of Cáceres, where the C Arañuelo 1 and 2 photovoltaic plants are located.
In Castilla La Mancha, two storage units will be installed in the municipalities of Valverdejo, Alarcón and Olmedilla de Alarcón (Cuenca), where Iberdrola España has solar parks.
The sixth asset will be built in Huelva, in the municipality of Puebla de Guzmán where Iberdrola España has the Andévalo photovoltaic plant – the first facility built with the UNEF Certificate of Excellence