The parliamentary spokesperson for Nueva Canarias (NC), Luis Campos, highlighted in committee the progress in the penetration and management of renewable energies in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura with the new marine interconnection between both islands. The deputy of the progressive Canarians emphasized the development of electrical planning to confront one of the greatest weaknesses of the Canary Islands, the isolated systems that with this last cable go from seven to six. Campos defended the "greater integration" possible in the Archipelago.
With a question to the Deputy Minister of the Fight against Climate Change and Ecological Transition of the Government, Ángel Pérez, the spokesperson for NC has addressed the situation of the electrical planning of the Archipelago for the period from 2021 to 2026 after the official inauguration, in mid-October, of the new submarine link between Fuerteventura and Lanzarote. A project done by Red Eléctrica Española (REE), with an investment of 36 million euros and that allows the interconnection between both islands through the substations of Playa Blanca and the municipality of La Oliva.
Luis Campos highlighted this infrastructure since it allows progress in the penetration and management of renewable energies that, in the last four years, have gone from 10% to 16%, in the two territories mentioned. It will also facilitate, highlighted the spokesperson for NC, "reducing the dependence on fossil fuels and decreasing carbon dioxide emissions with the objective of reaching the decarbonization of the Canary Islands in 2040".
This infrastructure, added Campos, "will also serve to confront one of the energy weaknesses of the Archipelago by enabling the reduction of the seven existing independent systems to six." In the opinion of NC, "greater integration is always preferable".
A proposal that progresses, he added, with the interconnection project between La Gomera and Tenerife, which already has the environmental impact statement and whose work, according to Deputy Minister Pérez; "may begin during the first quarter of 2023".
