In mid-March the most productive solar PV plant in the world was opened. Although not the largest in terms of total capacity (9.9 Megawatt peak) the PV plant will generate 14 million kWh/year. The plant Huerta Solar is owned by 753 people and was installed by Acciona. The plant consists of 889 solar panels (25 fixed and 864 moving with the sun). The movers are of two types: 556 have 50 m2 each (6,6 kWp) and 308 have 100 m2 (14 kWp).

The opening ceremony was chaired by Jose Manuel Entrecanales, CEO of Acciona, and Miguel Sanz, President of the Navarra region, with almost 1,000 people in attendance, mainly owners of the ‘Huerta Solar’ plant . Miguel Sanz: “We have reached already a 60 % contribution of renewable energy sources to the electricity supply of our region.” Entrecanales offered his services to the community: “Acciona has the will to work to change the present energy system, to make it based on renewables.”

Last week the two first solar plants at the Solucar la Mayor (Sevilla) project were officially inaugurated. The project started with the installation of the most powerful solar thermal power plant in Europe: the PS10 (11 MWe). It consists of 624 heliostats of 120 m2 each, reflecting the Sun's rays onto a tower of 115 m high. It is expected to generate 24.3 GWh electricity per year. Next to this plant, a PV plant was opened also based on concentrating systems. The Sevilla PV has an installed capacity 1.2 MWp and consists of 154 heliostats.

The opening event was chaired by the president of Andalucía Manuel Chaves and by the two co-presidents of Abengoa Felipe and Javier Benjumea. Abengoa, the private company that developed the project, will also build the second and third thermal units: the PS20 (20 MWe) and PS50 (50 MWe). The complete project will reach 300 MW in 2013 and consists of different solar technologies: solar PV (high and low concentration) and solar thermal power (solar tower, parabolic mirrors, Stirling dishes). The total investment will be 1,200 million €. In the end the whole project is expected to supply 180,000 families with solar electricity.