The project, named PSF Onda Sichar I, was published on April 7 in the Official Gazette of the Valencian Generalitat (DOGV). The plant will be located in polygons 8 (plot 222) and 10 (plots 7, 59) of the town, and will connect to the grid at the ST Corral del Cuervo substation, owned by I-DE Redes Eléctricas Inteligentes, via a 30/132 kV transformer substation and a 132 kV underground high-voltage line.
The resolution also includes the approval of the dismantling and restoration plan for the land, with a budget of €291,982.43, and establishes the obligation to provide a financial guarantee for its fulfillment. In total, 19,684 photovoltaic modules will be installed, covering an area of 61,145 square meters.
The initial project, submitted in 2021 with a higher capacity, had to be reformulated in February 2026 due to environmental conditions and the Environmental Impact Statement (DIA). This reformulation involved a reduction of more than 50% of the occupied area to adapt to the topography and landscape, exclude areas with slopes greater than 25%, and redefine the internal zoning of the plots.
Among the modifications, transition strips without modules were created, single-axis tracker structures were replaced with fixed structures, the plant was divided into two enclosures of less than 10 hectares, and the infrastructures were adapted to respect existing electrical easements, incorporating various landscape integration measures.
One of the crucial environmental conditions was the impossibility of occupying forest land or land affected by the 2009 fire, as well as avoiding impact on tree mass, highly eroded land, and the Natural Resources Management Plan (PORN) of the Serra d'Espadà. The Ministry of Environment indicated that the project was located in areas with “high and very high erosion potential,” and that 58 hectares affected forest areas, which would have implied tree felling.




