Bigger, more powerful and more innovative: our most recent infrastructures in the field of mature renewable energies are breaking all the records. An illustration through ten projects that have already been delivered or are still ongoing.
Campo Largo: ENGIE’s biggest wind farm
Where: Bahia state, Brazil
Key date: the first phase was inaugurated in September 2018, and the next phase is due in January 2021
Target capacity: 326.7 MW (Campo Largo 1) + 361.2 MW (Campo Largo 2)
ENGIE takes the lead: when Campo Largo 2 becomes commercially operational, ENGIE will have more than 1 GW of installed wind power capacity in Brazil
Jumbo Hill: bringing green energy to Texas
Where: at the border between New Mexico and Texas in the United States
Key date: came on stream in March 2020
Target capacity: 160 MW of wind power produced by 57 turbines
ENGIE takes the lead: the Jumbo Hill site, which is near oil and gas wells, prefigures the future of the worldwide energy mix, while also creating jobs for the local population
Seamade: more offshore wind power capacity in Belgium
Where: off the coast of Ostend, Belgium
Key date: came on stream in January 2020
Target capacity: 235 MW produced by 28 wind turbines, or the equivalent of the power consumed by 485,000 Belgian families
ENGIE takes the lead: Belgium is the world’s fourth-largest producer of offshore wind power in terms of capacity, behind the United Kingdom (10,428 installed MW), Germany (7,659 MW) and China (about 7,000 MW)
Muara Laboh: our first geothermal electric power plant
Where: Muara Laboh, in the Solok Selatan region of West Sumatra, Indonesia
Key date: inaugurated in February 2020
Target capacity: 85 MW of CO2 emission-free electricity, and annual savings of 380,000 tonnes of CO2
ENGIE takes the lead: this is the Group’s very first power plant that produces electricity using high-temperature geothermics
Kadapa: the largest photovoltaic project ever designed and built by ENGIE
Where: Kadapa, in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India
Key date: in operation since July 2019
Target capacity: production capacity of 250 MW
ENGIE takes the lead: in India, ENGIE now boasts a renewable electricity production capacity of more than 1.5 GW
ENGIE acquires the second largest hydroelectric portfolio of Portugal
Dam of Baixo Sabor, ©Jose Pedro Croft
Where: In Douro Valley, Portugal
Key date: acquisition finalized in December 2020
Production capacity: 1,7 GW by three pump storage units along with three recently repowered run-of-river plants
ENGIE takes the lead: “With this acquisition, we strengthen our presence in Portugal and the Iberian market, increasing our capacity to supply green energy to our clients. This comes in addition to our target to build 9 GW renewables over the period 2019 - 2021.”
Paulo Almirante, ENGIE Group Chief Operating Officer
Kathu Solar Park: the first concentrating solar power plant in South Africa
Where: Kathu, Northern Cape province, South Africa
Key date: came on stream in February 2019
Target capacity: 100 MW produced by 384,000 mirrors, provide clean and reliable energy to 179,000 households
ENGIE takes the lead: the technology used in this power plant allows for 4.5 hours of thermal energy storage to provide reliable electricity in the absence of solar radiation and during peak demand
Willogoleche: a wind farm in Australia operating at full capacity
Where: Willogoleche, South Australia
Key date: came on stream in 2019
Target capacity: 119 MW produced by 32 wind turbines, supplying electricity to 80,000 households
ENGIE takes the lead: Willogoleche is the first onshore wind farm in the world to use GE’s 3.8 MW wind turbines. The 65 m blades of each of the 32 wind turbines can operate across a broad range of wind speeds, enabling ENGIE to maximise the capacity of each turbine
East Fork: one more step towards decarbonising the United States
Where: Thomas County, Kansas, United States
Key date: came on stream in April 2020
Target capacity: 471.8 MW of clean wind power produced by 177 turbines
ENGIE takes the lead: the East Fork project is sustainable in more than one respect, because it contributes to the development of the local economy by creating new jobs and tax breaks for the community, including study grants at the Colby Community College
Ahumada: almost 600,000 photovoltaic panels in the Mexican desert
Where: in the desert in the state of Chihuahua, northern Mexico
Key date: came on stream in February 2020
Target capacity: 150 MW of solar power and 15.1 million tonnes of CO2 saved every year
ENGIE takes the lead: the photovoltaic panels on trackers follow the sunlight to optimise their production capacity