2023-05-04 08:50:00
Iberdrola has just put into commercial operation in the United States the Pachwáywit Fields photovoltaic plant, the largest in the state of Oregon. Located in the Guilliam county, the facility built by the company’s subsidiary in this country, AVANGRID, has 205 megawatts (MW) of installed power. The more than 471,000 panels that make up the plant will be capable of generating energy equivalent to the consumption of 40,000 homes per year.
The solar park will supply clean and renewable energy to large customers of Portland General Electric, including 17 of the most important of this distributor, through its Green Future Impact program. This initiative aims Help companies and municipalities in the state meet their sustainability and emissions reduction goals by supplying them with locally generated green electricity at an affordable price.
During its construction, the project has generated 300 jobsmany of them local. In addition, it has already meant the contribution through local taxes and land lease of regarding 1.4 million dollars that have allowed the implementation of actions to benefit local communities in terms of housing, childhood, communications, and art and culture, among other initiatives.
Commissioning of Pachwáywit Fields has made Gilliam County the largest producer of wind and solar renewable energy in the state of Oregon. Among the renewable facilities in this territory is also the 200 MW Iberdrola Montague wind farm, which supplies the Apple data center in Oregon.
Energy leader in the United States
Regulatory stability and the commitment of the different administrations to decarbonization have contributed to Iberdrola reinforcing its commitment to the United Statesthe main destination of the group’s investments, with more than 21,500 million dollars planned in the 2023-2025 triennium.
In less than two decades, Iberdrola has become one of the largest groups in the North American electricity sectorlisted since 2015 on the New York Stock Exchange.
Headquartered in Orange, Connecticut, and with approximately $40 billion in assets, The US subsidiary of the group, Avangrid, is present in 24 states and manages more than 9,450 MW of installed capacity, of which more than 8,600 MW from renewables (mainly wind and solar photovoltaic), and more than 130,000 kilometers of power lines through eight distributors in New York, Connecticut, Maine and Massachusetts. The company serves a population of 10 million people in the United States.
The subsidiary has more than 7,500 employees and generates through its investments and purchases a total of 70,000 jobs in the country.
Combining network business and renewable energy generation It is one of the main differentiators of the company.
In the activity of electricity transmission and distribution networks, it is carrying out investments in modernization and digitizationin order to increase the quality of service and resilience to extreme weather events and to enable the integration of more clean energy into the system.
In renewable energy, the company is the third largest company in the United States by installed capacity and leads the development of offshore wind energy, with a project portfolio of more than 6,000 MW. In addition, it is expected that by 2025 its installed renewable capacity in the country will reach approximately 10,000 MW, with growth of 70% in a decade.
Currently, it is running two of the most relevant energy initiatives in the country in the field of renewables and grids: the construction of the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind farm, with a capacity of 806 MW, in the waters of Massachusetts, and the acquisition of PNM Resources, in New Mexico and Texas.
At the beginning of 2022, Iberdrola, through Avangrid, was awarded more than 2,000 MW of offshore wind capacity on the east coast: Park City Wind (804 MW) and Commonwealth Wind (1,232 MW) offshore wind farms that have permits pending from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). The total investment in these three projects might exceed 10,000 million dollars in the current decade, and would generate clean energy for more than 1.5 million homes.
It also has the project of Kitty Hawk (3,500 MW), in North Carolina waters, the first phase of which, Kitty Hawk North (800 MW), has already started the BOEM permitting process.
In line with the commitment made by the US administration to green hydrogen, in October 2022, Iberdrola and the North American company Sempra Infrastructure announced an agreement for the joint development of large-scale green hydrogen and ammonia projects with the aim of meeting the decarbonization needs of the North American industry.
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