Lanzarote multiplies by ten its self-consumption photovoltaic installations since 2019

In 2023, an average of 20 installations per day are being installed in the Canary Islands, there are already 9,500 throughout the archipelago and they produce about 30% of the electricity

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EKN

March 15 2023 (07:22 WET)
A worker installing solar panels in Arrecife
A worker installing solar panels in Arrecife

In four years, the island of Lanzarote has multiplied by ten the number of self-consumption photovoltaic energy installations, going from 84 structures in 2019 to 840 at present, as reported by the Minister of Ecological Transition of the Government of the Canary Islands, José Antonio Valbuena. Self-consumption photovoltaic panel installations already produce 9 megawatts (MW) in Lanzarote.

For the entire archipelago there are currently a total of 9,500 installations, which is equivalent to a total power of 86 megawatts and that, in the first three months of this year, a rate of 20 new ones per day has been achieved, “which reflects the growing interest that has existed on the part of the Canarian population for this type of infrastructure that allows the energy self-sufficiency of companies and homes on the islands.”

José Antonio Valbuena has pointed out that this circumstance has even greater value if we analyze the photovoltaic panorama that existed in September 2019, when barely 400 were registered in the archipelago, with a total power of 9.3 megawatts (MW).

“Such is the progress we have made in terms of clean energy, that we can currently announce that we are only 55 megawatts away from reaching one gigawatt of installed renewable power, or what is the same, approaching 30% generation”, added Valbuena.

The Government of the Canary Islands currently maintains different open aid programs. On the one hand, there is the program of incentives linked to self-consumption and storage. On the other hand, there is a line of aid focused specifically on promoting shared self-consumption and energy communities in the islands.

 

Rest of the islands

The island of Tenerife is the one that has experienced the greatest growth, going from 155 installations in 2019 (2.58 MW) to 3,774 in March 2023 (26.94 MW). The following has been Gran Canaria, which started in 2019 with 230 installations (5.03 MW) and in 2023 has already reached 3,277 (36.18 MW).

In the case of Fuerteventura, the evolution has been from 43 installations (1.47 MW) to 924 (9.19 MW). La Palma started in 2019 with 46 (0.77 MW) and already has 491 (3.1 MW). The island of La Gomera barely had three photovoltaic installations in 2019 (0.04 MW) and in 2023 it already has 114 (1.12 MW). Finally, El Hierro has gone from five (0.06 MW) in 2019 to 59 (0.35 MW) at the beginning of March.

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