Spain’s Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge has granted a favourable Environmental Impact Statement to X-ELIO for a solar photovoltaic plant in Lorca.
X-ELIO’s project previously received environmental approval in 2015, but has since adapted the project. This includes building more than 15km of the evacuation line underground, reducing the line voltage to 132kV and downsizing the usable area of the project to 381ha.
The investment in Lorca will be 270m euros and around 300 jobs will be created during the construction of the plant, where local hiring will be a priority and will involve SMEs from the municipalities of the region.
The facility will have an installed capacity of 339 MW (386 MWp).
The new solar photovoltaic plant is expected to produce 748,000MWh of 100% renewable and sustainable energy during its first year of operation, enough to supply the annual demand of approximately 215,000 homes and will prevent the emission of 148,328 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere.