green adeje is the energy community created by the City Council and E.ON Innovation so that residents and local entities can collectively produce, share and use their own electricity from a renewable source. To do this, and bearing in mind that Adeje has more than 360 sunny days a year, they have installed the project’s first photovoltaic plant, made up of 200 solar panels, on the roof of the Municipal School of Music and Dance of Adeje (EMMA ).
Yesterday began the process to incorporate the population interested in this initiative, whose promoters hope that in summer there will be 140 homes in the area that collectively consume the energy from this photovoltaic plant. It will produce 149,200 kilowatt hours per year, which will reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 116 tons per year. To participate in and benefit from this “Europe’s first innovative citizen energy community”, green adeje look at the formula green roof and that of sun resident.
green roof It consists of installing solar panels on the roofs of buildings or homes for their own consumption and sharing the rest. It can be done in a self-financed way –you face the entire cost and installation and it is your exclusive property–, financing the cost and installation (up to 80%) with Cajasiete –in both cases you do not pay anything for the energy produced, you reduce your total energy costs , give up the plates that you do not use to connect to other members of the community and charge for that energy that you share–, or green adeje assumes the cost and installation, method with which you receive a payment for renting the roof, you connect to the panels you need, you pay the rate that best suits your consumption and you can also rent part of the panels.
sun resident It is the option of those who prefer to rent panels. For it, green adeje set various rates: size S, for singles and couples (one panel); size M, for families with an empty house during the day (two panels); size L, for families with the house occupied during the day (three panels) and the personalized size, adjusted to the project that the user demands.
The City Council and the company position this initiative as “the first energy community for energy consumption in Europe”. It is based on an “innovative approach” of citizen participation, which responds to the provisions of the Electricity Market Directive of the Clean Energy Package of the European Union (EU). It specifies that excess photovoltaic solar energy does not need to be fed back into the grid and, instead, can be used by those who live in the same town where that clean energy is produced.
Residents within 500 meters of the Adeje School of Music and Dance will be the first users
the energy community green adeje consists of several circles premises, each equipped with a photovoltaic plant that will provide solar energy to a certain number of consumers in the vicinity of each photovoltaic plant. The company E.ON Innovation will coordinate the installation of these plants, as well as the matching between energy producers and consumers.
The first sun ring or circle corresponds to the sphere of influence of the plant installed in the Municipal School of Music of Adeje (EMMA). Only those who live in the surroundings of the School, a maximum of 500 meters away, can benefit from it. Those who are interested in being part of it, as a generator-consumer or just as a consumer, will have to formally raise it before April 13, so that they will have the possibility of being among the first 200 residents of the municipality to benefit from this ” transition to local green energy and fight against climate change”. The initiative green adeje it is “the first of its kind in Europe”, according to its promoters.
In the presentation of green adeje, the mayor, José Miguel Rodríguez Fraga, stressed that “a more sustainable future is only possible if shared objectives and benefits are pursued. The energy community is a very important opportunity towards sustainability for us”. The general director of the project, Luis Hernández, stated that it is “the first community that responds to the new European guidelines”. He defended that “in Adeje we are creating a plan and a model that allows citizens to contribute, in a simple and active way, to a faster, more sustainable and affordable energy transition”. In parallel, green adeje works on creating more circles to expand the community. “The goal is that all residents have the opportunity to access solar energy in their neighborhood and become the fastest growing energy community in Europe.”
