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ACCIONA Energía Chile has been awarded 506 GWh per year of electricity output for 20 years in the biggest energy tender called to date by the Chilean Administration. The tender was open to renewable and conventional technologies. ACCIONA will build a 183-MW wind farm to meet the output won at auction. The new wind farm, San…

ACCIONA Energía has signed its first contract with Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) for the delivery of renewable power and clean energy certificates resulting from the energy auctions introduced by Mexico’s energy reforms. The contract covers the annual supply of 585.7 gigawatt-hours (GWh), which was awarded to ACCIONA in the first auction for long-term energy…

ACCIONA Energía has been awarded the supply of 585.7 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of renewable electricity in the first long-term power auction in the wholesale electric power market organized by the National Energy Control Center (CENACE) of Mexico. This will be materialized in a 168-MW wind farm in the State of Tamaulipas that will enter service in…

ACCIONA Energía has reached a technological milestone by integrating renewables into the electric power system, announcing that it is the first company in the world to provide adjustment services by increasing the level of generation exclusively through wind power, a field reserved for conventional energy sources until recently. The so-called “system adjustment services” in Spain, managed…

ACCIONA Energy has closed tax-equity financing for the San Roman Wind Farm with Bank of America Merrill Lynch. ACCIONA recently acquired the San Roman Wind Farm as part of the company’s renewed focus on building renewable energy projects in the U.S. “As ACCIONA works to build new clean energy projects in the highly competitive U.S.…

ACCIONA Energy has started construction work on the 93-MW San Roman Wind Farm, located near the southeast coast of Texas. It is the eighth wind farm owned by the company in the U.S., bringing ACCIONA’s US wind-power capacity to 721 MW. The project was acquired by ACCIONA Energy from developer Pioneer Green Energy. Located in…

ACCIONA Green Energy Developments, the ACCIONA Energía subsidiary that markets energy, has been awarded the high-voltage electric power supply to all the facilities of the Ministry of Defense in Spain. For the first time, these will be supplied by electricity of 100% renewable origin and completely free of greenhouse gas emissions. Under the contract, which was…

ACCIONA Energy decided to revamp its website to reflect a “new renewables’ era.” The upgrade is intended to provide a better visual design and easier navigation so users can quickly find information about the company’s activities, projects, and renewable energy capabilities. One of the most striking elements of the remodeled pages consists of an easy-to-use search…

Nordex SE is laying the foundations for the future wind-power growth. The company has agreed with 14 national and international banking partners on a new syndicated guarantee facility tailored to meet the requirements of its future growth plans. With a value of EUR 950 million, the new credit line has a five-year term. “In selecting the…

ACCIONA, a global leader in renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure, has pledged to achieve 100% carbon neutrality across its entire global operations by 2016. Carbon neutrality, or having a net zero carbon footprint, occurs when a business is able to balance the CO2 emissions associated with its activities with an equivalent amount sequestered or offset,…

The $55 million project is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2016, according to the company project schedule.

ACCIONA Windpower, an ACCIONA group subsidiary dedicated to the designing and manufacturing wind turbines, has completed a turbine-supply agreement with Building Energy for a 30-MW wind project located in central Iowa. Building Energy is a global renewable energy company with experience in 24 countries worldwide. Under the agreement, ACCIONA Windpower will deliver 10 AW125-3000 turbines,…

ACCIONA Windpower recently launched a “Scaling-up Renewables” action plan to almost double renewable energy capacity by supporting the global deployment of 1.5 terawatts of additional capacity by 2025. Fifteen CEOs of leading companies in the renewable energy sector all agreed on a shared vision to speed up this transition to a low-carbon energy system by accelerating…

Nordex SE recently presented its medium-term strategic targets for the period through 2018. These plans are based on the assumption that it will be able to merge its operating business with that of Acciona Windpower (AWP) at the beginning of 2016. Nordex has already applied for anti-trust clearance of the acquisition of AWP. By pooling…

ACCIONA Windpower (AWP), the ACCIONA Group subsidiary dedicated to the design, manufacture, and commercialization of wind turbines, has hit a new milestone in the wind industry. The company has installed more than 1,000 MW (1 GW) of wind-power capacity using concrete-tower technology. ACCIONA Windpower’s unique concrete-tower technology enables higher hub heights for better energy production, and…

The Spanish company ACCIONA and the Mexican Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together on electricity generation projects based on renewable energies in Mexico. ACCIONA President José Manuel Entrecanales and CFE Director-General Doctor Enrique Ochoa Reza were present at the signature ceremony. The memorandum has been signed within the…

ACCIONA Windpower and Nordex are joining forces to create a major new player in the wind industry. Nordex, a listed German wind turbine manufacturer headquartered in Hamburg, with a market capitalization of €2 billion, will acquire ACCIONA Windpower from ACCIONA S.A., a global renewable energy and infrastructure group. The transaction is valued at €785m, payable in…

ACCIONA Windpower the ACCIONA Group subsidiary that designs and manufactures wind turbines, has created a Wind Power Service Center in the city of Mossoró. It will service wind farms located in northeast Brazil, where the company has signed contracts for the supply of 264 turbines totaling 792 MW overall capacity. The center, located in one…

ACCIONA Windpower, the ACCIONA subsidiary dedicated to the design, manufacture and sale of wind turbines, has opened a turbine assembly plant at Simões Filho (Bahia, Brazil). It is already producing all of the three-megawatt (MW) machines for the Brazilian market. The opening ceremony was presided by the Governor of Bahia, Rui Costa dos Santos, who…

ACCIONA Windpower, the ACCIONA Group subsidiary that designs, manufactures, and markets wind turbines, will supply 43 three-megawatt (MW) turbines–with a total of 129 MW–to a renewable energy sector company for a wind farm in Mexico. With this contract, ACCIONA Windpower has now sold  988.5 MW in Mexico, of which 38% correspond to its 3-MW turbine.…