- Personalities from the world of cinema enjoyed a visit this weekend to Iberdrola's Salamanca facility, which continues to surprise visitors with its grandeur and the place where it was built, in a rugged area of granite rocks whose beauty attracts hundreds of visitors every year.
- The Aldeadávila plant is one of the largest generators of electricity in Spain, since its production accounts for more than 8% of the country's average hydroelectric generation, enough to supply 250,000 homes.
The guests, together with the director of the Salamanca facility, Clodoaldo Rodriguez, and the director of Iberdrola's dam operations in the western region, Alberto Vaquero, who were responsible for instructing the group.
The Aldeadávila dam and power station in Salamanca, owned by Iberdrola España, were visited this weekend by various personalities from the world of cinema, actors, producers and directors of series and films such as La Vaquilla, Un franco, 14 pesetas, Manos a la obra, Cuéntame cómo pasó and Machos Alfa.
This clean energy facility continues to impress with its grandeur and the site on which it was built, in a rugged area of granite rocks whose beauty attracts hundreds of visitors each year and which has also served as the main backdrop for such renowned film productions as the latest Terminator saga, Fast & Furious
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In 2016, it became the protagonist of the campaign that the Japanese company Fujitsu launched under the slogan The world is your workplace /El mundo es tu oficina, and last year, the designer from Salamanca, Fely Campo, chose the dam as the setting for her debut at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week -MBFW-, held in Madrid, which could be seen in all its splendour in the presentation of her luxury prêt-à-porter collection that proposed a journey, through a counterpoint of sensations, when admiring the overwhelming beauty of the balconies of the Arribes.
The visitors were pleasantly surprised by the spectacular nature of one of the largest electricity generating plants in Spain, as its output accounts for more than 8% of the country's average hydroelectric generation, enough to supply 250,000 households. It also prevents the annual emission of 1.3 million tonnes of CO2. The main structure of this hydroelectric plant is underground: it has 12 kilometres of tunnels which are 12 metres wide by 8 metres high.
Iberdrola España once again demonstrates its commitment to sustainable development and the dissemination of renewable energies in the areas where it operates, championing the energy transition, a challenge it undertook 20 years ago and which has made it a world leader in clean energy.
From the Douro waterfalls to global energy leadership
Iberdrola's commitment to Castile and León is part of the company's deep ties with this region, where it was founded more than 120 years ago and from where it has been promoting the energy transition towards renewable, clean and competitive energies that promote the development of a sustainable and environmentally and socio-economically responsible society.
Iberdrola España's commitment to clean energies began precisely with the promotion of the Saltos del Duero (Douro waterfalls) and this commitment, more than a century later, has materialized, becoming a global energy leader, the leading wind power producer and one of the largest electricity companies in the world in terms of stock market capitalisation.
In Castile and León, Iberdrola España is a leader in the development of these energies, with the management of more than 5,200 MW of renewable energy - 3,500 MW of hydroelectric - which consolidates the region as the autonomous community with the most "green" megawatts installed by the company in Spain.
One of the most important milestones in Iberdrola España's history
The mighty Douro River, despite being a means of transport for long periods of time, concealed an unimaginable treasure in the form of energy in its lower section. It was the engineer José Orbegozo who, after studying the river and glimpsing the entire canyon, realised the enormous possibilities of the international section and the magnitude of the project.
This consisted of building powerful waterfalls that would take advantage of the fantastic waterfall and create large reservoirs on the rivers Esla and Tormes. These reservoirs would regulate the flow and guarantee the production of the powerful power stations that would be installed downstream, either on the national or international section of the Duero, which, on the border between Spain and Portugal, and along its 160-kilometre course, had a gradient of 400 metres.
The creation of the Aldeadávila dam represents one of the most important milestones in Iberdrola's more than century-long history in Spain, a history that is the sum of the efforts of several generations who have understood how to take advantage, at all times, of the opportunities of the electricity market, with the ultimate goal of responding to the demands of industrial development and the well-being of society.
