SIMEC Energy and IGNIS sign agreement to create Spain’s largest renewable energy programme

Sanjeev Gupta, Executive Chairman of sustainable industry leader GFG Alliance, has today signed an agreement with Antonio Sieira, CEO of IGNIS, an integrated energy company and the leading developer of large renewable energy projects in Spain.

The partnership between IGNIS and SIMEC Energy Group (SIMEC), GFG’s global energy business, will work towards the development of one of Spain’s largest renewable energy programmes, with around 1.2GW generated from wind and solar energy to be operational by 2023. This will help fuel the development of GFG’s growth in energy intensive industries as well as its mission to be carbon neutral by 2030 (“CN30”).

Both SIMEC and IGNIS have a strong track record of delivering and operating renewable energy projects: SIMEC has around 600MW of existing capacity and is developing a further 2GW of renewable energy plants, including a 280MW capacity solar farm in South Australia, a 160MW onshore wind farm in Scotland and a cutting edge end-of-life waste to energy facility in Wales. IGNIS has developed and currently maintains a 725MW solar farm in Aragón, the largest in Europe, operates and delivers energy management services to 2.7GWs of power generation assets, and currently has a renewable development portfolio of more than 10GWs.

Commenting on the agreement, Sanjeev Gupta, GFG Alliance Executive Chairman, said: “This is a very exciting first step into Spain for GFG. This joint venture is firmly aligned with our ambition to be carbon neutral by 2030 and could bring enormous economic, environmental and social benefits to the Galician region and to Spain more widely.”

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