Plenitude, a subsidiary of Italy’s Eni SpA, has driven the first pile for the Entrenúcleos solar park twenty kilometres from Seville. Scheduled for 2026, the 200 MW facility is expected to supply over 435 GWh of electricity a year, matching the annual demand of about one hundred and thirty thousand Spanish households. Straddling Dos Hermanas and Coria del Río, the plant covers more than 300 hectares. The company estimates the build will peak at three hundred direct jobs.
Schedule, capacity and connection
The complex consists of four fifty-megawatt-peak sections—Granville, Killington, Plumlee and Rickwood—housing 326 000 bifacial panels. Their output will flow through the Entrenúcleos SET substation to the national grid via Red Eléctrica Española (REE). Plenitude says the layout curbs losses and eases access. Solarig has secured the engineering, procurement and construction contract.
The company will test green-steel structures, a recycled Spanish material with zero carbon footprint. Plenitude aims to shorten its supply chain and hedge against imported metal price swings. Permits also require ecological corridors and biodiversity islands for steppe birds, while land equal to the module footprint will host extensive farming practices.
Andalusian portfolio and strategy
Entrenúcleos lifts to 580 MW the solar capacity Plenitude is building in Andalusia, alongside Guillena (230 MW) and Caparacena (150 MW). “This plant confirms our ambition in Spain,” said Mariangiola Mollicone, managing director of Plenitude Renewables Spain and head of renewable energy for Western Europe. The group claims more than sixty thousand residential customers in the region. Its national operating portfolio stands at 1 300 MW, with a project pipeline above 2 GW.
The Junta de Andalucía welcomed the investment. “Renewables are the industrial opportunity the region has been waiting for,” stated Manuel Larrasa, secretary-general for energy at the regional Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mines. Dos Hermanas mayor Francisco Rodríguez called the initiative “a job creator” and “an element of industrial positioning” for the city. Works are slated for twenty-four months, with local procurement valued above EUR150 mn ($163 mn).
