Wind farm will allow corralejo desalination to produce twice the average energy consumption

- By 2010 the same amount of energy the CAAF consume at all of their desalination plants, will be generated from renewable sources.

The Water Supply Consortium to Fuerteventura (CAAF), a public entity headed by Mario Cabrera, complete this weekend installing the wind turbine plant attached to the desalination plant that the CAAF has in Corralejo. The estimated investment of about EUR 2.2 million has been assumed entirely by the CAAF.

The installation of wind turbines is made taking into account all environmental concerns. These two structures 45 meters high and 52 meter rotor diameter on the blades.

The new wind farm will enter into the electricity grid connection from the month of December and will generate about 1.5 MW of electricity from wind energy to date, thanks to support from 0'8 MW each of the two new wind turbines. The CAAF plant can produce daily some 4,300 m3 of desalinated water with supplying much of the north of Fuerteventura. "For your average production requires consumption 0'8 MW of electricity daily. Thus, the new wind farm will add to the electricity grid up to twice the average consumption that demands the desalination plant," said Manuel Miranda, director insular responsible for the CAAF, who accompanied this morning on a visit to the works council and the chairman of the CAAF, Mario Cabrera, and the Minister of Water and Waste insular, Luciano Barrios.

"This investment is part of a larger project aimed at getting the end of 2010 the CAAF is able to produce through their two wind farms to 100% of the electricity consumed on average for its production of desalinated water. This , plus the installation of wind farm Corralejo desalination plant, was also approved and expanding power of the wind farm in the CAAF has Cañada La Barca, in Jandia, "said Mario Cabrera.

In this case, it is a wind farm whose ownership is shared with DHS-UNELCO (40% and 60% ENDESA CAAF). This extension of power will increase the current 10 MW to reach 16 MW, with an estimated investment of 24 million euros because it includes the replacement of existing generators by other latest technology also requires less land occupation, being scheduled to enter service in late 2010.

Thanks to these actions in the two wind farms in the CAAF, in late 2010 and will be produced 11.3 MW of electricity from wind energy (minus 40% of Canada's Barca owned ENDESA), which represent 100% of consumption middle of the three desalination plants that the CAAF has in Fuerteventura (Corralejo, Puerto del Rosario and Gran Tarajal).

The CAAF today can produce up to 30,000 m3 per day of desalinated water with which caters to its more than 30,000 homes and business customers throughout the island, which means almost 90% of water consumption in Fuerteventura citizen.

Puerto del Rosario, 12 November 2009

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