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Mexico installs an ACCIONA wind turbine for the World Climate Summit in Cancun
Date: 11/29/2010
Mexican President Felipe Calderón inaugurated the turbine yesterday. The 1.5 MW machine incorporates ACCIONA Windpower technology.
The wind turbine, owned by Mexican state-owned company CFE, will supply electricity to the city of Cancun
Contents:Eleven Spanish companies join forces on the Azimut Project to develop a 15-MW offshore wind turbine using 100% Spanish technology
Date: 11/23/2010Gamesa is the project coordinator for Azimut. Offshore Wind Energy 2020, partnering with 10 other companies, of which Alstom Wind, ACCIONA Windpower, Iberdrola Renovables and ACCIONA Energía stand out, and 22 research centres
The project, approved by the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI), a unit of the Science and Innovation Ministry via the Cenit Programme, will require total investment of 25 million euros over four years.
ACCIONA presents the Cancun Communiqué to the European Commission
Date: 11/22/2010
ACCIONA, as a member of the Corporate Leaders Group for Climate Change, formed part of the delegation that presented officially the Cancun Communiqué on Climate Change to the EU Commissioner for Climate Change, Connie Hedegaard and to the Mexican Ambassador to the EU, Her Excellency Sandra Fuentes-Berain. The presentation ceremony was also attended by the ambassadors to the EU of Mexico, the United States and Canada.
Contents:ACCIONA Agua will treat Lima’s wastewater
Date: 11/22/2010
Including construction and operation for 25 years, the deal amounts to 280 million euros.
The company has been awarded the La Chira wastewater treatment plant, which will serve 2.5 million people.
Contents:ACCIONA Energy receives the "sello Reconcilia"
Date: 11/19/2010
ACCIONA Energy has been honoured with a "Sello Reconcilia" hallmark awarded by the Association of Businesswomen and Women Managers of Navarre (AMEDNA) in recognition of its efforts in promoting the reconciliation of work and personal life.
Contents:ACCIONA brings electricity to 15,000 people in Peru with a new model of self-sufficient energy supply
Date: 11/18/2010
ACCIONA Chairman & CEO José Manuel Entrecanales inaugurated yesterday in Cajamarca "Luz en Casa", a programme of implantation of domestic solar PV Systems based on a self-financing model.
Contents:ACCIONA opens the first mixed biomass plant in Spain with an investment of 50m euros
Date: 11/16/2010
The facility will use 110,000 metric tons a year of agricultural waste products (70% herbaceous and 30% ligneous)
The plant has created 100 stable jobs in the region of Extremadura and will generate clean electricity equivalent to the consumption of 40,000 homes.
The Company has signed supply contracts with 120 companies and farmers in the area to ensure the supply of raw materials.
This plant strengthens ACCIONA's position in the electricity-from-biomass sector in Spain. It now has five plants in operation totaling 65 MW and another five (82 MW) are in the administrative permits process
Contents:ACCIONA registers a 17% rise in Ebitda, to 813 million euros
Date: 11/15/2010
Net profits amounted to 101 million euros, 3.3% less in comparative terms.
Contents:ACCIONA Trasmediterranea offers at the London World Travel Market
Date: 11/10/2010
ACCIONA Trasmediterranea is offering some of its major novelties for the Balearic market at the World Travel Market, which is being held in London. The company is also offering its European customers in general other interesting options.
Contents:ACCIONA to build and operate on a concession basis Canada’s Windsor Essex Parkway motorway, worth an estimated 1,100m euros
Date: 11/05/2010
The Windsor Essex Mobility Group consortium, in which ACCIONA has a 33.33 % share, will build and manage the biggest road investment project in the history of Ontario Province.
Apart from an 11-kilometre motorway on a concession basis, the Windsor Essex Parkway project includes service roads, 1.2 square kilometres of green zones and a detailed environmental action programme.
El project will generate 12,000 jobs in the region.
Contents:ACCIONA Energy’s third CSP plant enters service, representing an investment of 237 million euros
Date: 11/04/2010
Located in Majadas de Tiétar (Cáceres province, SW Spain) it has a capacity of 50 MW and will produce clean electricity equivalent to the consumption of 30,000 homes
ACCIONA will end 2010 with four operational CSP plants totaling 214 MW, consolidating its leadership position in the solar thermal sector worldwide
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