Iberdrola completes turbine installation at 18.4 MW wind farm in Tenerife

Iberdrola has announced that it has completed the installation of wind turbines in the Chimiche Park in Granadilla de Abona (Tenerife). The project is the company's first wind farm in the Canary Islands and its first in Spain in the last six years.

Containing seven 80m 2.625 MW Siemens Gamesa wind turbines, the park has a total capacity of 18.375 MW, assigned in the Specific Canary Islands Wind Power Quota Tax Scheme.

The facility will be operational before the end of 2018 and its production will allow the supply of renewable energy to a population equivalent to 15,000 households, which will avoid emissions of 33,000 tons of CO₂.

The project, which Iberdrola co-owns with local partner Energías Ecológicas de Tenerife, represents an investment of EUR30 million (US$34.5 million), which covers the installation of the wind turbines, the electricity transmission line and the transformer substation.

Iberdrola's statement details that connecting the wind farm to the substation, which is 4km from the park, has required a series of complex civil engineering tasks, as the electrical infrastructure crosses a landscape that is characterised by the existence of many ravines.