ACCIONA completes the first wind park built by a Spanish company in South Korea

Madrid, Spain - ACCIONA has completed the grid connection of the 61.5 MW Yeong Yang wind park in South Korea. It is the first facility of its kind built by a Spanish company in that country and represents an investment of around 100 million euros.

The facility, located in the region of North Gyeongsang, has forty-one 1.5 MW wind turbines manufactured with ACCIONA Windpower technology, with a tower height of 80 metres and a rotor sweep diameter of 77 metres. The assembly and commissioning of the turbines began in the second half of 2008 and the process was completed this week with the grid connection of the last wind turbine.

The Yeong Yang windpark, 100% owned by ACCIONA, was registered by the United Nations as a project under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in February this year. This registration is for a period of ten years, during which time the facility will avoid the emission of 1.11 million metric tonnes of CO₂ (112,812 tonnes a year). ACCIONA will obtain Emission Reduction Certificates for this, which it can then sell on the emission trading market. According to the company it is ACCIONA

Source: IWR Online, 15 Jun 2009