The Cabildo of Lanzarote has launched this Wednesday the four wind turbines that make up the Arrecife Wind Farm, promoted by the Insular Water Consortium of Lanzarote. With a hub height of 85 meters and a rotor diameter of 71 meters, reaching a height of 120 meters with the blades, these new mills will have the capacity to produce about 27,150 megawatt hours per year and the estimated operation will be 2,951 equivalent hours per year.
The president of the Cabildo, María Dolores Corujo, has stated that "the commissioning of these four wind turbines will be an unbeatable opportunity to continue reducing the consumption of fossil fuels and curb climate change. From the Cabildo we will continue betting on an energy model where clean and renewable energies are prioritized and, above all, that involve cost savings".
The Park, executed by the company Elecnor, has 9.2 megawatts of total power through these four mills that will pour the energy produced into the Consorcio del Agua electrical substation owned by Inalsa, connected to the Callejones electrical substation of REE, in San Bartolomé.
The contract with Elecnor has included the supply, installation, commissioning and maintenance, during the warranty period, of the 4 Enercon wind turbines of the E-70 model, in addition to all the complementary civil infrastructures. The Arrecife Wind Farm was awarded to this Spanish infrastructure, energy and telecommunications group for 11 million euros.
The works of this park began on October 5, 2019. The concreting of the foundations was carried out between the months of July and August 2020 and the Insular Water Consortium of Lanzarote received the four wind turbines of the Arrecife Wind Farm at the end of August last year. The pieces of the machines arrived from Emden (Germany) to the port of Los Mármoles, in Arrecife, from where they were transferred to their final location for assembly and installation.
