Further hybridisation is planned in the region at FRV\u2019s cluster of PV projects at Carmonita \u2013 Carmonita Ministerio (320MW\/1,360MWh), Carmonita Sur (80MW\/400MWh), Carmonita Norte (91MW\/455MWh) and Carmonita IV (40MW\/200MWh) \u2013 and \u00a0111MW\/495MWh at San Serv\u00e1n 400, a cluster of three PV projects totalling 150MW.<\/p>\n
In Andalusia, FRV plans to hybridise its Alcores projects in Seville to incorporate 57MW\/285MWh of battery energy storage. In Catalonia, 334MW\/1,336MWh are planned across six battery storage facilities located in different areas across the provinces of Barcelona, Girona, and Tarragona. Meanwhile, Cantabria will host the Santander BESS Camarreal project, a 50 MW\/200MWh storage system in the municipality of Camargo, with construction scheduled to begin in the second quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n
A catalyst for FRV\u2019s BESS rollout is Spain\u2019s Royal Decree 997\/2025, passed in late 2025 in response to Spain\u2019s April power blackout. Enquiries in the aftermath of the outage highlighted a number of vulnerabilities in Spain\u2019s increasingly renewables-dominated electricity system, including a lack of battery energy storage to cope with volatility. In response, as reported on our sister website, PV Tech<\/a>, a central provision of the royal decree was to make it easier to add energy storage to the grid, with prioritisation given to hybridisation of batteries with operational renewable energy assets.<\/p>\n \u201cThe combination of hybrid projects and stand-alone storage systems will allow us to maximise the performance of our infrastructure, provide greater flexibility to the electricity system, and ensure a more stable and resilient supply,\u201d said Fernando Salinas, managing director of FRV Iberia.<\/p>\n \u201cThis strategy reflects our vision to lead the energy transition through advanced technological solutions that not only optimise the use of energy resources but also strengthen our contribution to the development of a more sustainable and efficient energy model.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Further hybridisation is planned in the region at FRV\u2019s cluster of PV projects at Carmonita \u2013 Carmonita Ministerio…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5312],"tags":[8442,33304,2000,299,228520,88486,33472,143307,104],"class_list":["post-783637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-battery","tag-bess","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-frv","tag-grid-stability","tag-renewables-integration","tag-solarplusstorage","tag-spain"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116119917396036156","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}