For the second consecutive year ACCIONA Energy has been awarded the American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA) Safety and Health Achievement Award. Last year the company received the Gold Award, this year it earned the Silver Award. The annual award, which was delivered during AWEA’s O&M and Safety Conference in San Diego, recognizes excellence in leadership…
Smartive agrees to inspect 1,000 Acciona turbines on annual contract
Smartive, the smart technology platform provider to the clean energy industry and backed by InnoEnergy, has secured a major contract with Acciona projects to monitor 1,000 of its wind turbines. The initial engagement will run for a year, with the option to extend. Over the period, Smartive will examine 15% of Acciona’s global wind fleet…
ACCIONA releases half-year results and net profits are up
ACCIONA obtained €186 million in attributable net profit in the first half of 2018 (+132.1% year-on-year) due both to business growth and to the capital gains on the divestment of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plants in Spain and of Trasmediterranea. Excluding capital gains (€85 million), ordinary profit amounted to €100 million (+25.6%). Earnings before interest,…
ACCIONA operates 183-MW wind farm following energy reform in Mexico
ACCIONA has begun the start-up of the 183-MW El Cortijo wind farm in Tamaulipas (Mexico), the first to enter service of those associated with the Energy reform in Mexico. Fifteen months after the start of construction work, the company has grid-connected the first wind turbines, a process that will continue over the next few weeks…
Acciona announces winners of 2018 scholarship awards
ACCIONA Energy USA Global has announced $40,000 in college scholarships to 10 college-bound students from Illinois, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Texas. With this year’s scholarships, the company has awarded more than $250,000 in scholarships to students from schools near its U.S. wind farms. “When ACCIONA builds in a community, we invest in that…
ACCIONA launches campaign to promote responsible investing
Companies, financial markets, governments, and consumers should align their investment decisions with the protection of the planet, ACCIONA says in a new campaign. The Spain-based renewable energy and infrastructure group believes the practice of sustainability, which the company embraced more than a decade ago, needs to evolve in order to remain relevant. To do so,…
ACCIONA wins AWEA’s top awards for safety & operations
ACCIONA Energy, a global operator of renewable energy projects, has received the AWEA Safety and Health Achievement Gold Award and the Operations in Excellence Award for its wind farms in the U.S. The Safety and Health Gold Achievement award is AWEA’s highest level of safety recognition and acknowledges that safety is an essential principle of…
Acciona opens battery storage plant at wind farm in Spain
Acciona Energia has opened a new battery storage plant alongside a wind farm in Barasoain, located in the region of Navarra, Spain. It is the first battery storage facility incorporated into a grid-connected wind farm in the country. The aim of the battery system is to increase the generation of renewable energy and optimize the management…
Acciona Energy appoints new North American CEO
ACCIONA Energy, a global operator of renewable energy projects, has named Rafael Esteban as CEO of ACCIONA Energy USA Global LLC. In this role, Esteban will be responsible for the growth of ACCIONA’s renewable energy portfolio in the U.S. and Canada and the operation of 966 MW of wind and solar energy projects in the…
ACCIONA acquires additional stake in Ontario wind farm
ACCIONA Energy, a global operator of renewable energy projects, announced that ACCIONA Energy International (AEI), through its Canadian subsidiary, has acquired 50% of the 76 MW Ripley Wind Farm from Suncor Energy Inc. The Ripley Wind Farm is located near the eastern shore of Lake Huron and generates enough electricity to power 24,000 homes. The…
Acciona begins operation of hybrid wind & storage plant
ACCIONA Energía has started up the first hybrid plant for storing electricity in batteries that is part of a grid-connected wind farm in Spain. The company has also developed simulation software that will be used in the plant, for which it has been awarded the ‘Eolo Innovation’ prize for by the Spanish Wind Energy Association…
ACCIONA inaugurates Texas’ 93-MW San Roman Wind Farm
ACCIONA Energy, a global operator of renewable energy projects, inaugurated the 93-MW San Roman Wind Farm — the company’s eighth wind farm in Texas. Located near Brownsville, Texas and equipped with 31 AW125/3000 turbines manufactured by ACCIONA Windpower (Nordex Group), San Roman wind brings the company’s total U.S. wind capacity to 721 MW. Each turbine has a…
Acciona begins construction of 168-MW wind farm won in Mexican auction
ACCIONA Energía has started construction work on the fifth wind farm under its ownership in Mexico: El Cortijo, a 168-MW facility in the State of Tamaulipas. It is the first renewable energy project resulting from the electric-power auctions organized in Mexico within the framework of the country’s Energy Reform. ACCIONA won the first tender a total…
Nordex sales climbed by 40% in 2016 with help from Acciona merger
On the basis of its provisional consolidated financial statements for 2016, the Nordex Group announced that is has achieved its targets. Company sales climbed by 40% to EUR 3.4 billion, including sales of EUR 726 million, contributed by the new subsidiary Acciona Windpower (AWP) — consolidated in April 2016 following the acquisition. In October 2015,…
ACCIONA & CFE continue joint efforts to develop renewables in Mexico
ACCIONA and the Federal Electricity Commission of Mexico (CFE) are continuing with their joint program to develop renewable electricity generation projects in different places in the country, as per the Memorandum of Understanding they signed in October 2015. As its part of this work, the CFE carries out surveys to assess wind-power resources and sites…
Alterra Power plans for 200-MW wind project in Texas
Alterra Power Corp. has announced the execution of several project contracts for the 200-MW Flat Top wind development project in central Texas. Contracts executed within the last week include: Turbine supply agreement with Vestas-American Wind Technology to supply 100 V110-2.0 MW wind turbines — which are part of the Vestas 2-MW turbine platform, one of the…
Acciona provides 2,000 MW of wind power for grid balance services in Spain
ACCIONA Energía is now allocating 2,000 MW of wind-power capacity to provide adjustment services to the electric power system in Spain. This represents a new milestone in terms of the full participation of renewable sources to the grid and at high levels of penetration. The accreditation (which requires renewables to pass the same tests as conventional sources) is…
Nordex selling Acciona wind-turbines in France for the first time since merger
The Nordex Group has been awarded a new contract for the installation of a 11.5-MW wind farm in France. Developed by French power station operator Valorem, the Aunis wind farm marks Nordex’s first project since the Acciona merger in which the company’s AW turbines will be used in France “Aunis wind farm shows how well…
ACCIONA recognized once again as the greenest electric utility in the world
For the second year running, ACCIONA has once again won the title of “greenest” electric utility in the world, according to the “New Energy Top 100 Green Utilities” ranking published every year by Energy Intelligence, a specialist independent consultant in energy markets. The ranking, which has just been made public in its fifth edition, combines…
ACCIONA’s Ventika wind farm inaugurated in Mexico
ACCIONA Energía recently held an inauguration ceremony for the Ventika wind-power complex in Nuevo León, Mexico. With a capacity of 252 MW, it is currently the largest ever built by ACCIONA for a client. The Ventika project consists of eighty-four AW116/3000 wind turbines of Nordex/ACCIONA Windpower technology. With a nominal capacity of 3 MW, each turbine…