The Endesa network subsidiary, e-distribución, detected a total of 1,057 electrical frauds in the Canary Islands in 2025, a figure that exceeds by almost 350 the frauds discovered the previous year, when a total of 710 illegal installations were dismantled, the company reports.
In the specific case of Lanzarote there were a total of 89 frauds during 2025.
By municipalities, in Arrecife 39 frauds were detected and in San Bartolomé there were 29, placing them in third and fourth place in the province after Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Puerto del Rosario.
In the rest of the municipalities of Lanzarote 8 were detected in Teguise, 4 in Tías, as well as 9 in Yaiza. None were reported in Haría and Tinajo.
The figure for 2025 at the archipelago level implies that during that year, an average of almost three fraudulent facilities were dismantled per day in the archipelago, it is indicated in a statement.
However, it is not the highest figure of the last five years, since it was in 2022 when the largest number of electrical frauds was discovered in the islands: 1,170.
In total, since 2021, more than 4,100 fraudulent electrical installations have been discovered and dismantled in the archipelago.
Although at a national level one of the main reasons for electricity fraud is marijuana plantations, in the Canary Islands, one more year, the detected electricity frauds are not related to this type of crime.
Regarding the data by provinces, in the past year, 431 electrical frauds were detected in the province of Las Palmas and another 626 in that of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
The municipalities with the highest number of discovered frauds were Santa Cruz de Tenerife (150), La Laguna (85), Arona (77), Granadilla (46) and Adeje (38), in the western province, and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (143), Puerto del Rosario (41), Arrecife (39), San Bartolomé (29) and La Oliva (18), in the eastern province.
In the country as a whole, only in 2025 did Endesa's network subsidiary, e-distribución, detect 72,700 frauds, the highest figure in the last five years and 1,700 more cases than in 2024.
This implies that last year an average of 200 frauds were dismantled per day, more than eight every hour. Between 2021 and 2025, e-distribución closed more than 320,000 cases for tampering with the distribution network, which allowed for the recovery of more than 3,750 GWh.
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