the solar thermal plant
in Villena (Alicante)
From left to right: the chairman of Aqualia, Eduardo González; the president of the Generalitat de Va-
lencia, Alberto Fabra; the deputy mayor of Villena, Mercedes Menor; and the CEO of FCC, Juan Béjar.
At the bottom, the FCC team that was involved in the execution of this project.
Occupying an area of 150 hectares (equiva-
lent to the size of 185 soccer fields), 141,200
mirrors have been installed at this plant which
has an installed capacity of 49.9 Mw, a supply
of energy that is sufficient to meet the needs
of the 35,000 people who live in Villena.
Work on this project was completed ahead of
schedule. Construction began in July 2010,
creating 500 temporary jobs. Management
and maintenance of the plant has generated
35 direct and 45 indirect jobs.
FCC Aqualia’s CEO, Eduardo González
who is also responsible for the Energy de-
partment, recently sold to Plenium Partners,
was present at the inauguration ceremony,
alongside the FCC Industrial team who ma-
naged the plant’s construction project and
several authorities of the Valencia Regional
Government and members of the city council
of Villena, the site of this new plant.
Alberto Fabra, the President
of the Generalitat Valencia-
na, and the vice-president
and CEO of FCC, Juan Béjar,
inaugurated the solar
thermal plant in Villena
(Alicante), a one of its kind
facility in the Valencia
Autonomous Community,
and the most modern one
of the sixty plants that have
been built to date in Spain.
Termosolar, an
FCC Industrial and Seridom
joint venture, was
responsible for the
construction of this plant
which was worth
an investment of
280 million euros.
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The President of the Generalitat
Valenciana inaugurates
