Naturgy inaugurates 50 MW solar project in Toledo

The Carpio de Tajo photovoltaic solar plant, the largest installation of these characteristics in the province of Toledo, has finally inaugurated and commissioned.

This plant, located in the town of El Carpio de Tajo, has 148,422 modules and a capacity of 50 MW, and will produce around 90 GWh per year, equivalent to the annual electricity consumption of about 25,000 homes, higher than consumption of the inhabitants of El Carpio de Tajo and Talavera de la Reina.

The investment that Naturgy has made in this project reaches 33 million euros and has led to the creation of some 150 jobs between the construction, operation and maintenance phases. This infrastructure will displace the use of other sources of conventional electricity generation, contributing to reduce around 53,000 tons of CO 2 per year 1,304,800 tons during its entire useful life, in addition to other pollutant emissions.

In addition to Carpio de Tajo, in 2018 Naturgy started the construction process of the photovoltaic solar plants of La Nava, Picón I, Picón II and Picón III, in the province of Ciudad Real. La Nava, which will start operations shortly, is an installation located in the terms of Almodóvar del Campo and Puertollano (Ciudad Real), with an output of 49 MW and an investment of more than 34 million euros. As for Picón I, Picón II and Picón III, located in the municipality of Porzuna, they have 50 MW of peak power each and the total investment is more than 90 million euros.

Additionally, the company has another installation of the same technology, Toledo PV, in La Puebla de Montalbán (Toledo), the oldest in Europe, since it started operating in 1994 with a peak power of 1 MW and this year It will be twenty-five years old from its start-up.

In addition, in Castilla-La Mancha, Naturgy has nine wind farms that in 2018 generated 540 GWh, which means covering the electricity needs of some 200,000 homes and avoided launching 170,000 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.