The Ministry of Ecological Transition presented this Tuesday the official headquarters of the Green Offices that will provide specific service for the islands of Lanzarote and La Graciosa.
The counselor responsible for the area, José Antonio Valbuena, stressed during the inauguration of these facilities that this is "a tool to bring the ecological transition closer to the citizens, who will have here an office where they will attend to any request for information or consultation they want to make".
The Lanzarote office will also provide service to the citizens of La Graciosa and will have advisory work on any issue related to the ecological transition and the fight against climate change.
In addition, it will centralize attention for the entire Canary Islands in relation to some specific subsidies, such as the Energy Rehabilitation Program for municipalities with less than 5,000 inhabitants (PREE 5000) and the DUS 5000 Program of aid for investments in unique local clean energy projects in municipalities with demographic challenges.
Valbuena recalled that, with this office, located on the first floor of the Cabildo, there are already five offices that are fully operational in Tenerife, Gran Canaria, La Palma, La Gomera and Lanzarote, and announced that Fuerteventura and El Hierro will have their own delegation in the coming weeks.
The Green Offices of the Canary Islands, developed through Gestur Canarias, managed more than 7,000 consultations in 2021, largely related to the two calls for the Next Generation recovery funds launched by the Ministry, in collaboration with the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, to promote electric mobility (MOVES III) and self-consumption and storage.
For her part, the president of the Cabildo, María Dolores Corujo, stressed that "the priority objective of the headquarters that Lanzarote has today is to develop, collect and distribute useful information and services for those who wish to move towards a sustainable system based on the circular economy, efficiency and renewable energies".
