14 News & Press Releases found
ACCIONA Energy News
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ACCIONA Windpower signs a contract to supply 93 MW of wind power for Brazil
In addition to the turbine supply contracts, the operation and maintenance of the wind farms has been contracted for a period of 15 years. To date ACCIONA Windpower has supplied, or has orders for, 423 MW in Brazil, all for its most powerful model ...
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ACCIONA Energy Introduces U.S. and Canada Avian and Bat Protection Plan
ACCIONA Energy announced today the formalization of its U.S. and Canada Avian and Bat Protection Plan. The company`s internal plan sets guidelines that evaluate and address the impact that wind farm development has on wildlife and aims to help ...
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ACCIONA starts work on its third CSP plant in Spain, representing an investment of EUR 237m
ACCIONA Energy has started construction work on a 50 MW concentrated solar power (CSP) plant at Majadas de Tiétar (Cáceres), representing an investment of 237 million euros. The facility, planned to enter service in summer 2010, will use solar ...
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Mitsubishi Corporation partners with ACCIONA by taking a 34% stake in world´s largest solar photovoltaic plant
In the presence of ACCIONA Chairman and CEO José Manuel Entrecanales and Mitsubishi Corporation Chairman Mikio Sasaki, both companies have signed an agreement giving Mitsubishi Corp a stake in Portugal´s Amareleja (Moura) PV solar plant, which is ...
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Acciona invests US$550m in the largest wind park in Latin America
ACCIONA Energy is constructing a 250.5 MW wind park in Oaxaca, Mexico, whose power will be bought by the Mexican cement company Cemex for its own use. The park, named Eurus, represents an investment of US$550 million (EUR 427 million) and will be ...
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ACCIONA puts into service the world’s biggest photovoltaic power plant in Portugal
ACCIONA Energy has put into service its photovoltaic (PV) power plant in Amareleja (Moura, Portugal). The Company has invested around 261 million euro (US 367 million) in the 46 MWp plant, the largest of its kind in the world. Amareleja is capable ...
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The UN registers two ACCIONA wind farms in India as a Clean Development Project
The Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), an organization dependent on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), has agreed to register as a CDM project two wind farms owned by ACCIONA in India. Already ...
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ACCIONA Energy invests EUR 366m in two wind parks in the United States
Located in the states of Illinois and Oklahoma, they are now under construction and will be completed by the end of this year. Their total capacity is 223.5 megawatts, distributed in 149 wind turbines of ACCIONA Windpower technology. They will ...
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The Finnish Minister of the Economy visits ACCIONA Energy`s facilities in Navarre, Spain
The Finnish Minister of the Economy, Mauri Pekkarinen, visited several facilities of ACCIONA Energy in Navarre today with the goal of learning first-hand about the way the company works, aiming to foster increased development of wind energy in ...
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ACCIONA Windpower introduces its 3 MW wind turbine at PowerExpo 2008 Exhibition in Zaragoza
ACCIONA Windpower, ACCIONA`s wind turbine manufacturing and supply division, today introduced its AW-3000 machine at PowerExpo 2008 Exhibition in Zaragoza, Spain. The new 3 MW rated capacity wind turbine expands the company`s range of products in ...
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ACCIONA completes construction of 5 solar gardens with investment of EUR 222m
ACCIONA has completed its implementation program for huertas solares (solar gardens) for 2008 within the laid down timescale. The program consists of plants totaling 30.31 megawatts peak power capacity (MWp) and an investment of 222 million euros by ...
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Acciona Energy invests EUR 500m in two solar thermal power plants in Spain
The facilities will be operational in 2010 and will produce 244 million kWh a year, equivalent to the consumption of 75,000 homes The plants will cover 260 hectares -equivalent to 364 soccer fields-, with 1,520 collectors and 364,800 mirrors ...
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Acciona extends its footprint in Canada by winning a 30 MW wind park contract
ACCIONA Energy has been selected by the Canadian electricity company Nova Scotia Power (NSPI) to build a 30 megawatt (MW) wind park at Amherst, on the country`s east coast. The park will consist of twenty 1.5 MW ACCIONA Windpower turbines, and the ...
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Acciona opens biggest solar plant in world in Nevada
ACCIONA President José Manuel Entrecanales highlights the importance of this facility as part of the company`s commitment to a sustainable energy model ACCIONA is the only Spanish company with an operational plant using parabolic cylinders, the ...