The largest solar park in Europe, located in Spain.
Iberdrola has commissioned the largest PV plant in Europe – the 500 MW Núñez de Balboa project
The project began into operation last week. Located in southern Spain’s Extremadura region. It features 1,430,000 solar panels, 115 central inverters, and two substations.
Iberdrola managed to secure green financing from the European Investment Bank and Spain’s Official Credit Institute. Covering 391 MW of the project’s total capacity in November 2018, following the finalization of an initial signed with financial services provider Kutxabank in July, in addition to another one signed in mid-October with telecoms service provider Euskaltel, which is based in Basque Country.
Iberdrola plans to install 3 GW of solar by 2022, of which 2 GW will be located in Extremadura. By 2030, the company aims to deploy approximately 10 GW. In June, it revealed plans to build two installations with a total capacity of 800 MW of solar near Cuenca, in Spain’s central-southern region of Castilla-La Mancha.