Through its renewable subsidiary Enel Green Power España, Endesa today presented its future plan for Andorra following the award of the tender called by the Ministry of Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge and which has just been confirmed.
The plan presented by Endesa, which combines new renewable capacity with unique hybridisation of technologies, projects with green hydrogen and a synchronous compensator, also features a real social-economic development plan in the area that will create more than 6,300 jobs, 370 of which will be direct permanent jobs in the area for the operation of the installation.
"Endesa has historical links with Andorra, and with this plan our aim was to show that we wish to continue playing a leading role in its history," said Endesa''s General Manager for Generation, Rafael González. "It is a real project that will continue to generate value in the area and which involves a commitment by Endesa to invest more than €1,500 million for the development of these projects."
The former energy production in a coal-fired thermal power plant will now be replaced by solar, wind, green hydrogen and storage projects, with a total installed capacity of more than 1,800 MW of new renewable capacity.
Endesa will build a total of 14 renewable projects with 7 hybridisations, an approach that to date is unique in Spain, that makes the installation much more efficient and production is much greater than the capacity of the node itself. The new renewable plants will be located in Albalate del Arzobispo, Híjar, Samper de Calanda-Castelnou, Andorra, Calanda, Alcañiz, La Puebla de Híjar, Jatiel, and Alcorisa.
This hybridisation will also be accompanied by the development of two battery storage plants that aim to fully exploit renewable energy production, reducing energy loss and optimising its use. An electrolyser will also be installed that will enable the surplus renewable energy to be managed for the production of green hydrogen, and a synchronous compensator that will enable this renewable energy to be injected with greater quality and stability, contributing to the suitable operation of the electricity transmission network.
This renewable development is accompanied by an ambitious industrial plan with companies with which agreements have been made for the development of their manufacturing activity. This is the case of Soltec, with whom Endesa has made a commitment to build a solar tracker factory. The new installation, which will use the warehouses and installations of the old thermal power plant, will create about 40 fixed jobs. An agreement has also been reached with Pretersa to extend the precast concrete factory located in La Puebla de Híjar that will generate another 80 jobs in the area.
Endesa is also working on the development of an electrolyser manufacturing centre and a second-life centre for wind turbines, in response to a need in the renewable sector and contributing to the circularity of these industrial elements.
Another of the industrial projects that Endesa will begin to develop in the area will be Smart Rural Andorra. This project is based on the development of a digital platform that will optimise the logistics chain for agrifood companies in Andorra and the surrounding region to connect production centres with urban consumption centres using zero CO2-emission transport solutions. This will involve the creation of a digital tool based on collaborative logistics that integrates agricultural producers'' supply, connecting them with the existing demand in the large wholesale consumption points.
Together with all this, Endesa proposes to develop energy communities in 9 of the municipalities covered by the fair transition agreement where the renewable energy projects will be located. Self-consumption plants will be installed in a number of locations in these municipalities, increasing their independence and energy efficiency. Endesa is also committed to reaching a total of more than 3,000 self-consumption beneficiaries.
In addition to these industrial and technological projects, Endesa has also generated a social-economic development plan with initiatives framed in the primary and service sectors to promote training and employment through economic diversification by taking advantage of the territory''s endogenous resources, which have been identified in this process of active listening with local agents.
In this regard, Endesa is committed to training as one of the vectors of our fair transition plan for Andorra. There will be over 300,000 hours of training related to the activity that renewable energy plants will generate and this will benefit the most vulnerable groups in rural areas such as young people, women, the unemployed and people with disabilities.
Endesa is also committed to building an Avifauna Research and Dissemination Centre in the area. This centre will not only foster tourism activity but aim to become a support centre for the entire local and regional education community.
For the land adjacent to the Andorra plant, an agreement has already been reached with Natur Nature, for the cultivation of aromatic plants, whose fruits, under a circular economy approach, will be distilled for the production of essential oils and their future commercialisation by a local company generating a new economic activity in the area.
Endesa''s renewable plants will not only have apiaries and agrovoltaics, but also shepherds from the area who will use their livestock to undertake natural clearing tasks in the installations in order to make industrial and rural activity compatible, a practice that the company''s renewable subsidiary, Enel Green Power España, has been successfully applying in its installations for a number of years.
The sheep will coexist with a 20-hectare microreserve of protected flora, which aims to protect rare, endemic and threatened botanical species, through the reintroduction or proliferation of one or more of these species, including scientific intervention for data collection, field studies and with the participation of the local community. The project has been identified as an opportunity to contribute to the fight against the loss of biological diversity reflected in the Aragón Strategy for Biodiversity and the Natura 2000 network.
Endesa also proposes a specific action for the protection of 150 olive trees located in the vicinity of the Andorra thermal power plant. This involved signing an agreement with ATADI, a leading organisation in the area in the field of disability and a special employment centre, to develop the Inclusive Olive Grove and Nursery project, with the aim not only of preserving these species but planting quince trees on the adjacent cultivable land. The products obtained from both activities will be marketed by the association itself for its daily activity.
Endesa, through its renewable energy division, Enel Green Power España (EGPE), has connected the Sedéis V, its first solar power plant located on the perimeter of the former Andorra thermal power station, to the grid.
The new facilities, which have a capacity of 46.66 MWp, have generated more than 280 jobs, 30% of which have been filled locally and now, having been commissioned, will provide permanent employment to 8 people in operation and maintenance activities for the next 30 years.
"These facilities represent a veritable example of the just transition in Andorra, reaffirming our commitment to being a totally emission-free company by 2040", said Rafael González, Endesa''s General Manager of Generation, who recalled "the commitment to society in the areas where we had our coal plants by generating wealth again, while looking to the future and taking into account the institutions, local authorities, associations and the local population".
The Sedéis, V photovoltaic project, located on the land of the now closed former Valdeserrana landfill, on the grounds of the former Andorra thermal power station area, will produce more than 79.95 GWh per year, equivalent to the consumption of 20,000 homes, preventing the emission of approximately 32,623 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere each year.
The construction of this project has been based on Enel Green Power''s "Sustainable Construction Site" model, including the installation of photovoltaic solar panels to cover part of the energy needs during the construction and water-saving measures through the installation of tanks and rainwater harvesting systems.
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