Construction of the second largest biomass plant in Spain is 80% completed

The Curtis Teixeiro biomass plant, one of the most important renewable energy projects in Europe, enters its final stretch with 80% of the construction tasks completed. Greenalia has already invested 100 million euros out of a total of 135 planned. The completion of the works is scheduled for September of this year.

The structures of all the buildings that make up the project have already been completed: workshop, warehouse, electrical building, generation building, crusher, storage silo, as well as the boiler, filters and chimney. The construction tasks are being carried out by a consortium formed by Acciona Industrial and Imasa Ingeniería y Proyectos, both with extensive experience in this type of projects.

The Curtis Teixeiro biomass plant is built on a plot of 103,000 square meters and will have a capacity of 50 MW in full operation, energy equivalent to supplying a population of more than 250,000 inhabitants. Once completed, it will become the second largest in Spain and the first in technological innovation. Its commissioning will allow the generation of 324 GWh and will have the capacity to treat 500,000 tons of forestry felling remains per year. This waste will be supplied by the Greenalia Forest group subsidiary, which will collect it in forests certified by the FSC or PEFC systems located within a 100 km radius around the facilities.

The plant incorporates the latest technological innovations applied to biomass infrastructure for electricity generation, complying with the most restrictive European regulations. These are highly efficient facilities in terms of generation and with a reduced level of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. It is a dry refrigeration plant, which means that it hardly consumes water and does not produce discharges. The plant is expected to come into operation in the first quarter of 2020.

Greenalia estimates to obtain recurring income of more than 910 million euros over 25 years from the sale of electrical energy, to which 295 million should be added from the supply of forest biomass for Greenalia Forest.

During the construction process and until its start-up, the plant is generating more than 1,000 jobs between direct and indirect jobs, of which, about 100 will remain permanent once the activity begins, 35 in the plant and the rest in the biomass collection activity