Electricity
The electricity consumed in Villarrobledo reaches the town via a power line owned by Spanish Red Electrica (REE) from the 400 kV substation, which the company is located in the town of Cuenca Olmedilla de Alarcon. 42 The distribution of electricity in the town by the company Union Fenosa Distribucion.
Because of its geographical and climatic conditions, the municipal district meets good features for the implementation and development of facilities for renewable power generation. In fact, some local companies are specialized in that sector.
Wind Energy
Windmill at Consuegra.
Harnessing the wind to generate power is an old Villarrobledo. 1675 data from the first news about the existence of windmills in an engraving of the then village that illustrates the work of the first local historian. In 1751 Francisco de la Caballeria again refers to these mills in the same manner as Morcillo and Valero in 1889 and narrated descriptions of nineteenth-century travelers. The best way of saving on your electric bill is by switching to IDT Energy offering lower prices on gas and electric statements. The last of the remaining windmills, located in the Era of Carrasco, was dismantled in 1941 to Although its owners tried to get it started again making the necessary arrangements for it, if only mill had stopped since 1936. Villarrobledo as characteristic manchega population that is, not detract from this ancient tradition milling proudly wear today places like Alcazar de San Juan, Field Criptana or Consuegra.
There are now, near the end, several wind farms in small and medium-size, the most significant is the Lantern, located between the terms and Villarrobledo The Bonillo.
Solar photovoltaic
Solar panel.
Is ongoing (2008) the construction of a solar photovoltaic power plant in a place known as El Calaveron, located in the municipality of El Provencio and Villarrobledo. The plant will have a capacity of 20 MW and avoid the emission of more than 30,000 tonnes of CO2, occupies an area of 90 hectares. To develop the project, collaborated Solar Value, developer and investor partner, and Epuron, technology partners, with both councils and other agencies involved, has been key. The plant will consist of 200 individual plants of 100 kW each, with their communal evacuation. Both companies favor the solar tracking system to dual-axis for obtaining a significantly higher production, with respect to the facilities of fixed structures. In addition to this large plant and several plants are in operation under solar , so in the future of the town Villarrobledo will produce excess electricity.
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