The Arrecife City Council announced this Tuesday in a meeting with representatives of the capital City Council, the Cabildo of Lanzarote, the Chamber of Commerce and advisory technicians that it will use the roofs of the Argana Sports Hall, and the large Public Works and Cleaning warehouses for the installation of photovoltaic panels to take advantage of solar energy.
The municipal government is committed to "a sustainable energy model for the municipality of Arrecife, as has been demonstrated during this term with the acquisition of buses powered by electric energy", the motorization of the Local Police fleet and the Municipal Mobile Park Area with hybrid or electric vehicles, and even the installation of lighting with solar spotlights in several sports facilities in the city. Within this strategy, the Department of Mobility and Transportation will launch this coming summer a municipal public electric bicycle system to promote the mobility of residents and visitors.
In this meeting held in the plenary hall, headed by the councilor Mario González Altube, it was stated that the City Council will transfer several large roofs of municipal buildings to the recent Energy Community of Lanzarote, already constituted and of which the City Council of Arrecife is part with a recent plenary agreement, for the use of solar energy.
Mayor Yonathan de León announced last week that the Argana Sports Hall, closed for almost 12 years, will reopen its doors this coming spring, after the adaptation and legalization works. The roof of this large sports facility, among the largest in Lanzarote, will house a photovoltaic plant integrated into the conejera Energy Community, of which the Arrecife City Council is already a part after its recent adhesion with a plenary agreement.
With these local energy communities, as detailed by the councilor González Altube, head of the Projects Unit, with this municipal decision energy costs will be reduced for domestic consumers, industries and companies in the municipality, as well as for the public sector, with self-consumption for municipal facilities in Arrecife.
The Energy Communities, defined in the European Directives since 2018, are part of the energy transition in which the city of Arrecife is immersed, from municipal public transport, to the incentive in the reduction of the IBI for properties with photovoltaic panels, and the use of large roofs in existing buildings, which, through cooperation, allows a more efficient and collaborative system in energy resources.
Specifically, the selection of these municipal buildings aims, in addition to self-consumption, to favor that the photovoltaic solar energy of these solar installations can allow the residents of the area (Argana Alta), to have a reduction in their electricity bill, as well as the SMEs and businesses existing in the vicinity of the warehouses of Works and Cleaning (Urbaser), located in an industrial estate in the capital of Lanzarote.
The installation of solar panels in these buildings of the City Council, as stated this Tuesday in the working meeting, has a clear objective: to reduce the electricity bill of the adhered entities, within the framework of a policy to promote energy self-consumption in both companies and the public administration.
