{"id":96509,"date":"2023-08-25T11:34:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T15:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/noticias\/coal-plant-replaced-wind-farm\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T11:35:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T15:35:23","slug":"coal-plant-replaced-wind-farm","status":"publish","type":"noticias","link":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/coal-plant-replaced-wind-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish coal power plant will be replaced by a wind farm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Inspenet, August 25, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Endesa has received approval from the Spanish government to decommission a coal-fired power plant in northwestern Spain, with the intention of replacing it with a 1 GW wind farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The As Pontes coal plant will be closed<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The company issued a statement indicating that the Ministry of Ecological Transition (Miteco) has approved its request to <strong>close the As Pontes coal plant<\/strong> , the largest in Spain, with a capacity of 1,468 MW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An Endesa spokesperson reported that the company <strong>will complete the use of the remaining coal at the plant by the end of September<\/strong> , before the Galician regional authorities declare their use ban for the plant. Subsequently, it will proceed to <strong>launch a contest for the dismantling of the plant<\/strong> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It should be noted that Endesa had communicated its intentions to replace the coal-fired power plant and its power generation with renewable sources, including a 1 GW capacity wind project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spain aims to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and earlier this year set more ambitious goals in its transition to a green economy. The country plans to reduce  <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/noticias\/cientificos-trabajan-en-la-obtencion-de-hidrogeno-limpio-para-reducir-las-emisiones-de-carbono\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"38759\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">carbon emissions<\/a><\/strong>  by 30% compared to 1990 levels by the end of the decade and aims to get 48% of its energy requirements and 81% of its electricity from renewable sources such as wind and solar power by 2030 .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source and photo: https:\/\/www.worldenergytrade.com\/energias-alternativas\/energia-eolica\/endesa-mayor-central-de-carbon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspenet, August 25, 2023.<br \/>\nEndesa issued a statement indicating that the Ministry of Ecological Transition (Miteco) has approved its request to close the As Pontes coal plant, the largest in Spain, with a capacity of 1,468 MW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8403,"featured_media":96457,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categoria_noticias":[13026,13046],"etiqueta_noticias":[],"class_list":["post-96509","noticias","type-noticias","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria_noticias-energy","categoria_noticias-wind-energy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/96509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticias"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/96509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria_noticias?post=96509"},{"taxonomy":"etiqueta_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etiqueta_noticias?post=96509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}