RWE commissions solar power plant in Spain
The company has commissioned its largest Spanish solar project to date, Gazules.
The Gazules project (Image credit: RWE)
Germany, Essen/Spain, Madrid: Over the past two years, RWE has taken steps to expand its solar business to more than 4.2 GW worldwide. The company has commissioned its largest Spanish solar project to date, Gazules. This is a 92 MWac ground-mounted photovoltaic plant in the province of Cádiz, Andalusia. It consists of two solar power plants, Gazules 1 and Gazules 2, each with a rated capacity of 46 MWac.
RWE has installed around 240000 bifacial modules on a total area of 140 hectares. The utility-scale solar farm first fed electricity into the grid in February 2024 and has been gradually put into operation with full commissioning in April. The project will be able to supply the equivalent of 20000 Spanish homes with green electricity per year. Following the commissioning, RWE now has a solar capacity of approximately 300 MWac on the Iberian Peninsula.
Katja Wünschel, CEO Onshore Wind and Solar Europe & Australia, RWE Renewables, commented: “In less than two years, we have installed more than 550,000 solar modules on the Iberian Peninsula and have increased our solar capacity sixfold to approximately 300 megawatts. That is a fantastic track record. The sun in Europe is a great partner on our path to net-zero by 2040. With Gazules we have commissioned our largest Iberian solar plant to date.”
Source: RWE