The Territorial Policy area of the Cabildo of Lanzarote has received the provisional island ordinance that includes the criteria to homogenize the use of renewable energies on the island.
For the president of the first island institution, Oswaldo Betancort, “this new ordinance is extremely important for the present and future of Lanzarote and La Graciosa. For the first time, our islands will have an energy planning instrument compatible with our environment and with the singularities of our landscape”.
Betancort explains that “the main problem that this ordinance will solve is to fill the absence of regulation regarding the territorial implementation of the use of wind, photovoltaic or any other energy generation from renewable sources”. “At the same time”, adds the president, “the minimum criteria necessary for its legitimacy and determination of the public and social interest of the projects that are intended to be installed, both public and private, must be established, and the development of a more sustainable energy model that favors the creation of a local economy of great added value must be made compatible".
For his part, the island councilor of Territorial Policy, Jesús Machín, details that an economic item of 59,325 euros has been allocated for the drafting of this ordinance and that Tragsatec had a period of two and a half months for its preparation.
Machín emphasizes that “the most important thing about this ordinance is that they are not going to come from outside, from the offices of the multinationals, to compromise our territory, but that with this planning document the criteria for the penetration of sustainable energies on our island will be established; we, the people of Lanzarote, will say on which soils they can and cannot be installed”.
“We are bound by a law for a just energy transition, which we must comply with, but yes, putting ourselves, from here, where yes and where no, and that no one, from outside, compromises our landscape without any type of criteria and not even respecting the protected areas”, adds the councilor.
After receiving this ordinance on energy planning, the document will now be put out for public display so that citizens and local administrations can present their respective allegations. Likewise, the document will have its corresponding strategic environmental assessment and will be submitted for final approval by the Lanzarote corporation.
