Endesa has submitted a project to build a 50-megawatt (MW) photovoltaic power station on the site of the Andorra thermal power station in the province of Teruel to Aragon's Department of Industry, Competitiveness and Business Development. Contact online >>
Endesa has submitted a project to build a 50-megawatt (MW) photovoltaic power station on the site of the Andorra thermal power station in the province of Teruel to Aragon''s Department of Industry, Competitiveness and Business Development.
This is the first of several projects in the Futur-e plan to replace the thermal power station with renewable power in the vicinity of the Andorra power plant, the ultimate aim of which is to install 1,725 MW of power, 1,585 MW from photovoltaic plants and 140 MW from wind farms. An additional 160 megawatts of battery storage will also be installed. The three-phase project will conclude in 2026.
The first phase, which will begin in January 2021 and end in early 2022, involves the construction of a 50 MW photovoltaic park (submitted for administrative processing), to be built within the perimeter of the current thermal power plant, and the construction of a 49.4 MW wind farm, to be installed in the municipality of Ejulve.
The second phase will add 235 megawatts of photovoltaic solar energy and 54.3 MW of battery storage, largely installed within the perimeter of the existing thermal power plant. The work will take 15 months between March 2022 and June 2023.
Endesa already has a connection point for the first two phases, while the third phase - 1,390 megawatts - depends on an allocation by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition of the evacuation capacity of the Andorra thermal power plant. For this to happen, the Fair Transition Agreement needs to be signed, so that the CNMC can authorise the decommissioning of the existing thermal power plant and pave the way for the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge to authorise the power.
During the third and final phase, which are scheduled to begin in May 2023 and end in early 2026, 1,300 MW of photovoltaic power, 90 MW of wind power and 105 MW of battery storage are scheduled to be be built. The facilities associated with these phases are planned to be built on land in the municipalities of Andorra, Alcorisa, Alcañiz, Calanda and Híjar.
On 19 December 2018, Endesa submitted a formal request to close the Andorra thermal power plant, in Teruel, and the Compostilla plant, in León, in accordance with the company''s updated Strategic Plan and in line with national energy policy goals announced by the Ministry for Ecological Transition to achieve a fully decarbonised energy system by 2050. In addition to these applications, in December 2019 the company sought permission to close down the thermal power stations in As Pontes (A Coruña) and Carboneras (Almería).
As well as seeking permission to decommission these plants, Endesa has voluntarily prepared and submitted an action plan for each plant to mitigate the impact caused by the slow-down in activity. Called the Futur-e Plan, whichpromotes the development of economic activities and job creation in the local areas of both plants as part of the Fair Transition model. The company has stressed that these proposals are flexible and open to taking on board new viable initiatives going forward to achieve these development goals in the areas were the plants are located, thereby adding its efforts to the initiatives and leadership of the Public Administration bodies involved.
The Futur-e Plan for the Andorran thermal power plant was presented at the Climate Change Summit in Madrid in December, as an example of the Fair Transition.
According to the company, the Futur-e Plan for Andorra envisages keeping the 153 Endesa employees of the plant on the workforce and gives top priority to hiring workers from existing auxiliary companies to work on the plant closure and dismantling activities which will may take anything from four to six years, and which will create around 130 jobs with up to 200 workers employed at peak times.
Plant employees are being given personal attention and offered relocation packages according to their areas of expertise, always considering geographical proximity to their current workplace. So far, 22 workers have been relocated and it is expected they will be joined by a further 70. The remainder will join the plant dismantling crews.
Contractors'' workers will be invited to take training courses to take part in the works and may be hired to work on the new renewable facilities the company is building in the area.
Building and running these facilities will create 4,014 jobs during construction and 138 positions for 25 years to keep the plant operational and maintained.
It will also provide important resources to the surrounding municipalities through taxes and rates, as well as high income from rents to the owners of the land that will house the facilities.
All these renewable energy construction plans have Creation of Shared Value (CSV) Plans. CSV plans are designed in collaboration with environmental agents and their ultimate aim is to maximise the social and economic impact of the projects on the community. The CSV plans include the two training courses carried out in 2019 and a further four courses are planned for 2020. These courses will allow employees of auxiliary companies to join some of the companies to dismantle the plant and to play a part in the new renewable projects that Endesa plans to launch in the area.
The construction of this renewable capacity is in line with Endesa''s strategy of completely decarbonising its generation mix by 2050. To achieve this, the milestone of its 2019-2022 Strategic Plan will be to reach 10.2 GW of renewable installed capacity by 2022, compared with the 7.4 GW estimated for the end of 2019 (which includes the 879 MW awarded in the 2017 auctions), with a total investment of about €3.8 billion.
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Lignite-fired power plant
The coal-fired thermal power plant was built after the oil crisis of the 1970s to use black lignite from the Teruel mining basin of the Aragon region. It was commissioned between 1979 and 1980.
The power plant is now being decommissioned and will be replaced by a solar-photovoltaic renewable power plant. The strategic decommissioning plan is part of Spain''s commitment to make the country carbon-free by 2050.
Endesa complied with the resolution and submitted a request for decommissioning in December 2018, which was approved in September 2019. The company is also decommissioning its Compostilla thermal power plant located in Cubillos del Sil, Leon province. The decommissioning of both the plants is expected to take four to five years.
The Teruel thermal power plant is spread across an area of 532.3ha, at an altitude of 600m above sea level. It is located in the Teruel province in the Andorra town of the Aragon region.
The plant is accessible through the A-1407 regional road, which connects it with the Calanda municipality.
Unit 1 and 2 of the plant were commissioned in 1979, while Unit 3 was commissioned in 1980. Each unit of the thermal power plant comprises a Foster Wheeler boiler, a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries turbogenerator, cooling tower, electrostatic precipitators and desulfurisation units, which processes the exhaust gases from the precipitators.
The plant also comprises of coal storage parks, coal crushing buildings, coal transfer towers, electric carbon buildings, sampling towers, scales, coal hoppers, galleries, and carbon transport belts and various carbon buildings.
The flue gas stack or chimney of the plant is 343m high and helps in the better discharge of gas emissions. The power plant is designed to treat surplus water from the plant operation (cooling tower bleed) for reuse in the desulphurisation process.
The power plant underwent strategic retrofit upgrades through the years including filter upgrades, modifications to desulphurisation scrubbers and installation of Mitsubishi''s wet limestone flue-gas desulfurisation (FGD) process.
New burners emitting low levels of nitrogen oxide were installed in Unit 3 of the power plant in 2012. Further, a new holding tank at the flue gas desulphurisation facilities was commissioned.
The power plant facility uses pulverised bituminous lignite or brown coal as the primary fuel. The coal was procured from a mining basin near to Samper de Calanda located approximately 12km away through a railway line.
The decommissioning of the Teruel thermal power plant will take place in seven zones differentiated based on functionality. Zone one includes the turbines and water treatment areas, while zone two includes the boilers and related equipment. Zone three includes the gas desulfurisation plants and associated facilities and zone four includes the chimney and cooling towers.
Zone five includes the coal park and related facilities, zone six includes the general facilities such as warehouses, ash silos, parking lots, and limestone reception areas, while zone seven includes the interior railway line and other associated structures.
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