Spanish contractor GES has started the construction of three solar farms in Spain totalling 131MW for Alter Enersun.
The projects, which are located in Caceres, are expected to be operational in November.
They will produce 243,300 megawatt-hours of electricity a year, which is equivalent to the annual energy consumption of 70,000 families avoiding the emission of 229,675 tonnes of C02 per year, GES said.
A total of 240,800 panels with individual capacity of 540W will be installed across 172 hectares.
GES is providing a full scope of services, including the design and engineering, construction, equipment and material supplies, commissioning, the required tests for the correct operation of the photovoltaic plants and the voltage step-up substation.
It will also carry out the energisation process about one month before start-up.
The three plants – known as Caceres 2020, Caceres 2021 and Caceres 2023 – will be connected to a 30/220kV voltage step-up substation located at the Caceres 2020 plant site.
This, in turn, will be connected by an evacuation line to the interconnection substation SE1 Casar2, GES said.