Iberdrola starts the turbine installation for three wind project in Asturias

Iberdrola has started the construction of the 37 MW Cordel-Vidural, 34 MW Capiechamartín, and 21 MW Panondres wind project in Asturias, Spain.

The three wind farms require an investment of more than EUR100 million (US$117.9 million). The company will also start the construction of the fourth project (36 MW Verdigueiro wind project), once the administrative authorizations are obtained. 

Iberdrola has started the assembly work of the wind turbines, having finished the civil work, planned the arrival of materials at the wind farm sites, and organized the different actions to be performed in the field. The materials (towers, nacelles, and blades, among others) are transported along narrow single-access roads with numerous slopes and bends of up to almost 180º, to reach the level of the wind farms. This activity has required exhaustive planning to avoid effects on the planned works and to make possible the arrival of up to 200 daily shipments with different materials.

At an altitude of 800 meters, and in an area with constant weather shifts that make work difficult, large wind turbines are already being erected: blades of 56 meters in length, nacelles weighing 126 tonnes, and towers of between 80 and 93 meters in height.

The wind farms will consist of SG114 wind turbines, with a unit capacity of 2.62 MW: 37 MW Cordel-Vidural is located between the municipalities of Navia, Valdés and Villayón; 34 MW Capiechamartín is located between Tineo and Valdés; 36 MW Verdigueiro will be built between Tineo and Villayón and 21 MW Panondres between Villayón and Valdés.