Iberdrola – Cartagena (Spain)
Distributed control system SAT and commissioning for the Iberdrola combined cycle plant in Cartagena (Murcia) in Spain. Two gas turbines and a steam turbine with a total installed capacity of 800 MW. Implementation of continuous and sequential control, complete development of the graphic system and operation interface, historian, remote control of the plant, functional tests and performance tests until the commercial operation started.
The Iberdrola Group is today a world leader in renewable energies, with more than 43,421 MW of renewable capacity installed worldwide at the end of the first half of 2024. The Escombreras combined cycle power plant replaced the old fuel-oil plant commissioned in 1957 by Hidroeléctrica Española. It has an installed generation capacity of 831 MW.