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Quico Ponce grazes his sheep on a farm between solar panels between Mérida and Almendralejo. / jm rosemary

Endesa favors livestock use in its photovoltaic plants and develops agricultural production projects

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Quico Ponce grazes this morning with 68 sheep on a farm that shares a municipality between Mérida and Almendralejo. The field begins to dry out but the cattle still have to eat. The most striking thing is that Quico, from Solana de los Barros, guides the merinos between solar panels. In full production, the El Doblón photovoltaic plant, which is managed by Enel Green Power, Endesa’s renewable subsidiary, also becomes a large space (it occupies a total of 127 hectares) in which livestock also gains and energy, for its part , it also saves the task of clearing the land to prevent fires.

“Sheep benefit from this. They still have food here and there is also a small shade under the plates that they are grateful for, ”says this shepherd of a flock of which he is in charge, although he does not own it, which reaches 800 heads. “El Doblón is an example of how the production of clean energy goes hand in hand with an improvement in environmental sustainability”, stressed José Bogas, CEO of Endesa.

Rafael González, director of projects at Endesa, has highlighted how the photovoltaic plants of this energy company consolidate the improvement of the birdlife where they settle. He has explained projects that are beginning to be developed in facilities in Extremadura with nest boxes between plates for kestrels, owls, beehives and amphibians. “The development of the avifauna is going to be higher than what was previously in places where photovoltaic plants are being installed,” he stressed.

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Enel, through the Extremadura Agrifood Technology Center (Ctaex), promotes the planting of broccoli -three hectares- on land occupied by the Augusto photovoltaic plant in Badajoz and aromatic plants, including rosemary and thyme, with four hectares in its renewable Valdecaballeros. While in El Doblón he has advanced his idea of ​​planting vineyards between the plates as well as reserving part of the land for beekeeping.

“Extremadura is the territory where we feel most supported, without failing to meet all the requirements that these projects require, to produce clean energy and improve environmental sustainability,” added the CEO of Endesa.

The company has 8 photovoltaic plants in operation in the region, with 260 million invested in the last year to start up 388 megawatts. In these projects it has reached peak workforces of 2,300 workers.

«Extremadura is the region that will grow the most in the coming years to develop energy projects and against climate change. We have a marked roadmap, an electrical plan. We are the region in which a company or projects of this type can be set up more easily”, explained the Chairman of the Board, Guillermo Fernández Vara.


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