The Cabildo of Lanzarote has received the study that will serve for the planning of energy infrastructures on the Island. This report has been carried out by the Technological Institute of the Canary Islands (ITC), dependent on the Government of the Canary Islands, and addresses issues such as "the decarbonization of the economy and the transition to renewable energies in the territory of Lanzarote".
The First Institution commissioned a study that will serve as a basis for creating the planning instrument in environmental matters on the Island, and more specifically, in relation to "the energy infrastructures of Lanzarote".
"Now, thanks to this report, we have a decisive roadmap to achieve less dependence on fossil fuels and to move more and more towards renewables," stressed the president, María Dolores Corujo.
The Minister of Energy of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Ariagona González, explained that the ITC study "has the main objective of detecting the needs of territorial occupation, as well as the suitability of the Island to host the different technological solutions that would allow decarbonization before the year 2040 in accordance with the Declaration of Climate Emergency of the Canary Islands".
In this way, from the Cabildo they point out that "an initial diagnosis" of the current situation on the Island has been carried out, determining "an extreme dependence on the consumption of fossil fuels". In addition, they point out that in 2019 an amount of "452,155 metric tons of petroleum derivatives" was imported.
The Island Corporation points out that the study includes a section in which "an estimate of the energy demand in Lanzarote" is made. This is done based on "various socioeconomic parameters, very detailed alternatives to the current energy model and a section where optimal locations of energy infrastructures are listed." These are distributed throughout the Island according to the resources available to it, and divided by type of energy: wind, photovoltaic, geothermal, etc.
