Spain, Bilbao: Iberdrola has been awarded an energy generation project in Mexico, the Noreste combined cycle power plant planned to be built in the municipality of Escobedo in Nuevo León state, which will have a capacity of 850 MW and require an investment of $400 million.
Spain, Bilboa: Spanish utility Iberdrola will buy a Connecticut-based UIL Holdings Corporation for about $3 billion to create a new listed power and electric utility and expand in the United States.
Spain, Basque: Iberdrola, the Bilbao-based Spanish public electric utility, has opened Pontika substation in the town of Errentia after the substation received a €2.5 million ($2.8 million) capacity and technological upgrade.
Spain, Burgos: A group of students visited the Villímar substation in Burgos, which provides service to 82,000 customers.