MITECO drives over 700 MW of renewables with new environmental resolutions
In the last week of August, projects by Statkraft, Naturgy, Enel, Elawan and Villar Mir were approved, while two wind farms promoted by Forestalia in Zaragoza were rejected.
In the last week of August, projects by Statkraft, Naturgy, Enel, Elawan and Villar Mir were approved, while two wind farms promoted by Forestalia in Zaragoza were rejected.
The AO9 aid scheme provides €11.34 billion over 20 years to finance three floating wind farms—one in Brittany and two in the Mediterranean—that will provide up to 1.65 GW of new renewable capacity and produce around 1.5% of the country’s electricity.
OOW will work together with the remaining shareholders of the Salamander Offshore Wind Farm consisting of Simply Blue Group and Subsea7 to continue the development of the project into a demonstration project for commercial-scale floating offshore wind. The new consortium has been welcomed by Crown Estate Scotland.
This is an aerial system that combines optical sensors, lidar and artificial intelligence to survey birds and marine mammals, reducing costs, risks and carbon footprint.
Spain is allocating €77 million to 62 agrivoltaic projects and developing innovative structures such as catenaries that bring prices closer to conventional ones. They stress the need to measure the total land productivity and to develop a flexible regulatory framework to enable a competitive industry.
During the third week of August, higher wind generation in Spain, Germany, Italy and Portugal, together with lower demand following the end of the heatwave, pushed electricity prices down across most European markets. Solar output fell across the board, although Germany reached a historic daily production record for August.