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Valcárcel stressed that "now more than 20 percent of the total energy produced in the region comes from renewable sources"
The prime minister visited the facilities of the new 061 Emergency Service City
The President of the Autonomous Community, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, today made an official visit to the municipality of Jumilla, where he toured the new 061 Emergency Service of the city and opened a new wind farm in the Sierra de las Cabras.
The President said that with the launch of this new wind farm, which joins other six are located in the region of the Altiplano, "the Murcia region becomes a national renewable energy."
Earlier, the chief executive Murcia toured the new 061 Emergency Service, which, he said, "has made a breakthrough in health in the community."
The Ministry of Health has reached an agreement with the City of Jumilla for the transfer of a building to house the 061 Emergency basis, whose service through your computer, allows to increase the radio coverage of the entire area and get virtually one hundred percent of the population.
"These units are small hospitals emergency allowing rapidly address health emergencies in the area, and already a total of 17 in the entire region," said the president.
After visiting these new facilities, Valcárcel attended the official opening of the wind farm Sierra de las Cabras accompanied by the Minister of Universities, Business and Research, José Ballesta, and the mayor of Jumilla, Enrique Jimenez, along with institutional delegate Iberdrola Patricio Valverde.
This park, which will produce enough energy to power about 10,000 homes, joins six others already in operation in the area, bringing the Altiplano region of Murcia and a reference in the production of wind power and renewable.
Valcarcel said that "the installed wind power in the region has increased in recent years," adding that "we have gone from 150 megawatts in 2007 to 191 megawatts in 2011, accounting for 4 percent of total the energy content of the Region and 0.9 percent nationally. "
He also stressed that if the European Union has made commitments on energy for Europe 2020, "in Murcia this horizon, which is marked by 20 percent of exports and production, already far exceeds, because 23 , 7 percent of the energy produced in the region in 2011 came from renewable sources "
The project of the Sierra de las Cabras has been developed by the company Renewable Energy in the Region of Murcia, which belongs to Grupo Iberdrola Renovables, SA
The new park represents an investment of 22 million euros, and has a total of 11 wind turbines of 2 megawatts (MW) of power each unit, and has been built by 'Iberdrola Engineering', so the park has a total of 22 MW.
Thus, the park produces enough energy to supply nearly 40,000 people, equivalent to 10,000 homes and avoid the emission of 24,000 tonnes of CO2.
With this facility, the company has established itself as an industry leader by wind capacity in the Region of Murcia, where it now has 162 megawatts in six wind farms in the Highlands, and an investment of 200 million euros.
Renewable energy facilities implemented by this company have a significant economic impact on the areas in which they operate.
Thus, municipalities Jumilla and Yecla earn an annual profit of 700,000 euros, which are updated with the CPI, in addition to municipal taxes and other municipal charges.
Since 2007 the facility has doubled in the Region
In 2012, in the Murcia region totaled 900 megawatts of installed capacity in renewable energy (cogeneration, hydro, photovoltaic, solar thermal and wind).
Since 2007 have doubled renewable energy facilities in the region, a community that exports power to other regions.
Thus, in 2011 exports 1492 gigawatt / hours of electricity, which accounts for 20 percent of our total production, which amounted to 7,800 gigawatt / hour.
Source: CARM
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