Coalición Canaria is committed to promoting renewable energies in Arrecife

Echedey Eugenio: “We are talking about a sustainable project that would turn the capital into the engine of the energy model change that our Island needs as a Biosphere reserve”

September 22 2021 (08:49 WEST)
Echedey Eugenio and Maciot Cabrera in an archive photo
Echedey Eugenio and Maciot Cabrera in an archive photo

Coalición Canaria in the Arrecife City Council is committed to "the installation of clean and renewable energies in the capital" through two initiatives that will be taken to the Corporation's plenary session this September. 

In the first of them, the nationalists propose the implementation of the project called "Solar neighborhoods in the city". An initiative that they report is based on "the establishment and community installations of photovoltaic panels that would supply electricity to homes and businesses in a certain area.” 

As explained by the CC spokesperson, Echedey Eugenio, this type of project "is usually promoted by local administrations and has the involvement of energy marketers and supramunicipal administrations such as the Ecology and Development organization (Ecodes)". "It is necessary to proceed with the search for funds and subsequent execution of the infrastructures that allow an urban supply of electricity that is produced in a community way for domestic self-consumption and small businesses," Eugenio pointed out. 

He also considers that for this "solar panels should be installed in buildings of public ownership, so that the residents and businesses in the area can benefit from that electricity without having to undertake an installation in their own buildings." Therefore, in order to carry out this project, the party contemplates that "it would be necessary to find out which is the neighborhood with the largest area of public rooftops and see its viability in order to transfer the project to the rest of the neighborhoods."

"We are talking about a sustainable project that would turn the capital into the engine of the energy model change that our Island needs as a Biosphere reserve," says Echedey Eugenio.

In the second of its proposals, CC Arrecife proposes to the City Council "to subsidize in the Real Estate Tax those who have self-consumption facilities and/or discharge to the network of clean and renewable energies and that, in addition, the necessary ordinances and urban planning documents are modified to facilitate the procedure and enable its installation."

In this regard, the councilor of the Nationalist Group Maciot Cabrera points out that "although the powers of the city councils in terms of incentives for renewable energies are scarce, if there is a will, they can contribute to promoting their implementation not only because we must move towards a more than necessary change in the energy model, but also because it would help to compensate for the tremendous damage that the irresponsible rise in the price of electricity is generating in the economy of our neighbors"

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