The National Commission of Markets and Competition has ruled in favor of the San Bartolomé City Council and the Compensation Board of Action Unit Number 10 of the Playa Honda Industrial Zone in the conflict over access and connection to the electricity grid. In this way, the owner of the network, Edistribución Redes Digitales, is ordered to submit a proposal aimed at providing a supply of 2.69 MW to the entire area.
The mayor of San Bartolomé, Isidro Pérez, celebrates this resolution that comes “after a long process in which the City Council, hand in hand with the owners that are part of the Compensation Board, has knocked on all possible doors to achieve something that, by justice, should have happened years ago, once again demonstrating the legal force that the Public Administration can have.”
Pérez emphasizes the effort made since 2011 when an agreement was signed between the City Council and Endesa aimed at providing electrical power to the entire Playa Honda industrial area. “In 2020, with Ángel Víctor Torres as president of the Canary Islands, we managed to get the Ministry of Industry to resolve that it was Endesa's obligation to proceed with the provision of power in Unit 4”, he recalls.
He adds that in 2023, the situation arises that the Canary Coalition and Popular Party Government claims to have no competence to resolve, despite it being a similar scenario to that of 2020, adding that current government pact that Endesa had arguments to maintain its position. “This was the reason why, immediately, we appealed to the National Commission of Markets and Competition, which now comes to agree with us, arguing that the supply should be facilitated if there is power for it.”
Isidro Pérez underlines the importance of this resolution for the municipality and for the Playa Honda industrial area, “whose balanced development is a firm commitment of this Government Group to represent a focus of economic interest located next to the main gateway to the island of Lanzarote”. Finally, he values the great effort made by the business community in the area and the firm fight maintained in all these years for the defense of their rights and interests.