Six municipal buildings in El Rosario will incorporate Photovoltaic installations for electrical self-consumption. This is an initiative that follows actions along the same lines in other Rosario dependencies, and which in this case will benefit a municipal industrial warehouse in the Polígono El Chorrillo, the La Esperanza mobile park site, the El Guanchito well, the Agricultural Market, the Llano del Moro Sports Center and the Ludoteca of that same nucleus.
To make these improvements possible, an investment of 700,000 euros is contemplated. Currently, the project is already underway and, if everything goes according to plan, it will be completed in November 2022. They detail from the Consistory that they are trying to obtain new funds from the Government of the Canary Islands through the 2022 Transformation and Resilience Plan.
The mayor of El Rosario, Escolástico Gil (IR-Greens), stressed that a “green government must be committed to sustainability and the reduction of the carbon footprint”, to which he added: “And we are demonstrating it with a which includes projects such as this one or the recently created El Rosario Solar energy community».
On a more technical level, the aforementioned spaces will have a power of 300 kilowatts, with which the energy transition in the municipality and the reduction of the carbon footprint are sought. It is not the first measure of this nature that has been carried out during this mandate. The most outstanding action in this regard was the subsidy that the Consistory announced in August 2020 that it had received from the Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving (IDAE), dependent on the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, in the framework of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Operational Program for sustainable growth 2014-2020.
In that case, the total investment exceeded 580,000 euros, of which the El Rosario City Council contributed 15%. With those other funds photovoltaic modules were installed in up to nine Rosariera facilities: the City Council, the Mayor’s Office and Theater School of Llano Blanco, the La Esperanza Nursery School, the El Rosario Nursery School, the El Chorrillo Sports Center and Youth House, the Lomo Pelado Sports Center and Comprehensive Training Center, and the San Isidro, Leoncio Rodríguez and Machado schools.
«From El Rosario we are doing the task to take advantage of part of the more than 400 million euros of European funds exclusively for the Canary Islands for renewables that the Ministry is about to take out to install photovoltaic self-consumption in almost all the buildings of public administrations Canary Islands”, explained the Councilor for Ecological Transition of El Rosario, Fidel Vázquez (SSP).
