GE Vernova has signed five deals for onshore wind projects in Spain, all using the company’s 6.1 MW turbines with 158 m rotors.
GE Vernova will supply and commission 16 of its turbines for two wind farms in Castilla León. Eight turbines will go to the Casa Vieja wind farm and eight to the Pedrejones wind farm. Deliveries are expected to begin in late 2024.
The company will also upgrade the Les Colladetes wind farm in Catalonia for Enervent with the installation of eight turbines.
Finally, the Barranco del Agua wind farm in Andalusia will receive five turbines under GE Vernova’s agreement with Greenvolt.
Gilan Sabatier, Chief Commercial Officer for International Onshore Wind at GE Vernova, commented: “We are honored to bring more wind energy online in Spain and support our customers’ efforts to accelerate the energy transition.”
The company has more than 4.3 GW of operations in Spain, a technical expertise centre in Barcelona and two wind turbine blade manufacturing facilities in the country.
In May, GE Vernova secured a €700 million ($760.8 million) contract to supply turbines for the 760 MW Teruel wind project in eastern Spain.
The company’s global onshore wind operations total approximately 56,000 installed turbines and an installed capacity of nearly 120 GW.
According to Spanish Wind Energy AssociationIn 2023, wind energy was the country’s main source of electricity generation, covering more than 24% of demand with more than 22,000 turbines generating more than 61,000 gigawatt hours.
Spain’s National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) aims to install more than 50 GW of wind energy by 2030. The country has the second largest installed wind capacity in Europe, after Germany.
Energy technologyGlobalData’s parent company predicts that Spain’s wind energy sector market will achieve a compound annual growth rate of more than 6% by 2035.
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