Green light for 740 MWh Spanish battery projects

Spain’s MITECO issued positive EIS for three energy storage projects during the week starting Nov. 9, 2024.

The Gecama site features 250.08 MW of solar generation capacity as well as 100 MW/200 MWh of battery energy storage which will also be hybridized with the 300 MW Gecama wind farm. The latter project is, according to its developer, “the largest wind farm in Spain” and was launched in 2022 by Israeli company Enlight Renewable Energy, which is promoting the project.

The direct-current-coupled batteries will be housed in 80 containers.

MITECO also approved the 77.6 MW/340 MWh, four-hour-storage Cerrillo battery project in the Malagan municipality of Álora. Project promoter Rolwind thus secured its second favorable EIS decision in little over a month after its 200 MW/885 MWh BESS in Cádiz was approved in early November.

French and Italian-owned developer TagEnergy’s 100.2 MW/200.4 MWh Tabiella BESS Standalone Energy Storage project in Asturias, plus its grid connection infrastructure, also received the green light from MITECO. TagEnergy, owned by a joint venture between companies belonging to French businessman Jacques Veyrat and Italy’s Agnelli family, has also opened the 49.5 MW/99 MWh Chapel Farm project near Luton, in England and will build France’s largest battery, a 240 MW/480 MWh project.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has rated Spain world number two for battery projects in an advanced stage of development, behind only the United States. The IEA says Spain is trailed by the United Kingdom, Australia, and Chile.

From pv magazine España.