About a hundred people participated in the Energy Conference organized by the Cabildo de Lanzarote and held on Friday morning at the CICCA Hall in Arrecife. As explained to LA VOZ by the Councilor for Industry, Energy and Commerce, Lourdes Bernal, these conferences have focused on the advantages of photovoltaic energy production, which in the long run represents significant savings for consumers.
The conferences were aimed at the general public, although with special attention to entrepreneurs in the construction and energy sector, engineers, architects, quantity surveyors and installers.
The electric company that operates in the Canary Islands, Unelco, presented in its presentation its willingness to buy energy produced by solar panels from those autonomous producers who risk making the investment.
In this sense, anyone who has a roof in their home to place a photovoltaic module can produce enough energy to eventually end up earning money, in addition to the difficulties that the electric company often has in satisfying all consumer demand.
It could be a good business for Inalsa to place these panels to ensure that Unelco does not cut off its supply, as happened last summer, when as a result of these cuts towns such as Arrieta and Punta Mujeres were left without electricity for weeks.
New buildings
In any case, these investments are especially suitable for new buildings, where a community of neighbors or a company could self-supply energy, while an individual would have to sell the surplus to make the installation of the panels profitable.
What is intended with the organization of these conferences is to "demonstrate that photovoltaic energy in Lanzarote is very profitable, which has already been amply demonstrated through an exhaustive study by the economist of the Biosphere Reserve Council," said Bernal.
One of the most interesting interventions was that of the engineer who designed the Gran Hotel, who recounted his great experience in the construction of buildings specially designed to take advantage of solar energy, especially due to their orientation towards the sun during daylight hours depending on their location.