Enel, the owner of Unelco Endesa, will build the largest solar energy plant with battery storage on free land within the Barranco de Tirajana power plant with an investment of about 11,5 million euros and with an installed power of 9,3 MW, which would be equivalent, in terms of energy production, to the average consumption of more than 3.000 homes and about 7.500 people. There is so much renewable energy in the south of Gran Canaria that when the equivalences are mentioned it is as if the south of the island were Detroit.
Starting at the end: the El Matorral plant, which should be operational by early 2026 at the latest, will be built on an area of about eight football fields and will use the latest technology available on the market and will have 15.000 state-of-the-art photovoltaic panels. . It is not known if it will have a visual impact but surely not and it will generate 20 construction jobs.
This solar energy enclave of El Matorral will allow, when fully operational, the saving of emissions of 1.874,5 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, or in other words, an impact similar to planting almost 94 thousand trees or a forest of 74 football fields. The new plant has a subsidy through the Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving (IDAE) of 5,6 million euros. Thanks to this, Enel in the Canary Islands joins the other communities where the company already has similar facilities that exceed 600 MW of production in total. Enel Green Power Spain is advancing with the construction of this plant with the goal of completely decarbonizing the Canary Islands by 2040.
