- RWE, a german developer, has commissioned its 41MW Rea Unificado onshore wind farm in Soria in the northeast of Spain.
- The “Soft-Spot® foundations” used by RWE at Rea Unificado are reinforced concrete spread foundations placed on an insulating expanded polystyrene (EPS) layer.
RWE, a german developer, has commissioned its 41MW Rea Unificado onshore wind farm in Soria in the northeast of Spain. The project has nine Nordex turbines with a rated output of 4.53MW and rotor diameters of 149 metres, with a capacity to supply the equivalent of 30,000 Spanish homes with electricity annually. It is the German developer’s 17th Spanish onshore wind farm and its first to feature ‘Soft-Spot foundations’.
The “Soft-Spot® foundations” used by RWE at Rea Unificado are reinforced concrete spread foundations placed on an insulating expanded polystyrene (EPS) layer. The amount of concrete and steel used is optimised, making the project more cost-effective and environmentally sustainable. RWE now operates onshore wind farms in Spain with a total capacity of more than 480MW, with its Orkoien onshore wind project currently under construction.
RWE chief executive officer for onshore wind and solar in Europe and Australia, Katja Wünschel, said: “Rea Unificado is the first RWE wind farm where we installed our wind turbines on innovative resource-saving ‘Soft-Spot® foundations’. They allow us to reduce construction and material costs while increasing stability significantly. This was quite a challenge. My special thanks go to the development and construction teams for making this innovation in Rea Unificado possible.”