Enlight gets approval to add colocated 200 MWh battery storage plus solar to Spain’s largest wind farm

Spain’s Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (Ministry of Environment) has granted the company final permits for the construction of the Gecama hybrid plant in the province of Cuenca.

The Gecama hybrid plant project received its final administrative and construction approvals this Monday. This follows the project’s environmental impact statement, which was granted on November 25, 2024.

Developed by Generación Eólica Castilla-La Mancha, a subsidiary of the Israeli company Enlight Renewable Energy, the project will add a 250.08 MW solar farm and a 100 MW / 200 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) to the existing 329.2 MW Gecama wind farm. The facility is located across the municipalities of Atalaya de Cañavate, Tébar, Cañada Juncosa, and Honrubia, located roughly between Madria and Valencia.

Gecama is already Spain’s largest wind farm and is now set to become the country’s largest hybrid power installation once it is operational.

The lithium-ion battery system will provide 200 MWh of usable storage capacity from a 100 MW facility over a two-hour duration. The plan calls for 80 containers, each holding 8 battery racks with a capacity of 344 kWh per rack.

According to the project’s environmental impact statement, the solar farm will feature:

• 371,940 bifacial solar modules (605Wp), using the “Risen RSM144-10-605 model or similar.”
• 900 string inverters (250 kW), using the “Sungrow SG250 HX model or similar.”
• Single-row solar trackers from manufacturer “Soltec or similar,” with foundations driven directly into the ground.

From pv magazine Spain.