The Lanzarote Island Water Consortium has started the construction works of the future Arrecife Wind Farm with the concreting of the first of the four wind turbines that make up this new infrastructure.
"We continue to advance in our transition towards an energy model that only offers advantages with the supply of clean, renewable, efficient, inexhaustible, reliable energy and, in addition, at a lower cost,” said the president of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, María Dolores Corujo.
Corujo recalled that the Arrecife Wind Farm represents an "unbeatable opportunity to continue reducing the consumption of fossil fuels and curb climate change, and thus guarantee a cleaner economy and a greener and more sustainable future for this planet. We must anticipate the climate emergency and face the threat from responsibility.”
The Arrecife Wind Farm, executed by the company Elecnor, will have 9.2 megawatts of total power through four mills that will pour the energy produced into the general electricity grid, in the Callejones substation, in San Bartolomé. With a hub height of 85 meters and a rotor diameter of 71 meters to reach a height of 120 meters with the blades, these four new mills will have the capacity to produce about 28,605 megawatt hours per year and generate an annual profit of 1.5 million euros.
The Arrecife Wind Farm is a project covered by the aid line for Low Carbon Economy projects, in electricity production facilities with wind and photovoltaic technologies, located in non-peninsular territories, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and managed by the Institute for Diversification and Energy Saving (IDAE).
