The City Council of El Rosario has been the beneficiary of six grants from the Ministry of Ecological Transition, Fight against Climate Change and Territorial Planning of the Canary Islands Government, through the General Directorate of Energy and co-financed with the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), for the improvement of energy efficiency and the use of renewable energies in public infrastructures. The six approved projects achieved a total funding of 152,000 euros from this aid line, which was attended by the different municipalities, with El Rosario being the second municipality in the Canary Islands to which the most projects were approved.
The six projects subsidized by the Government of the Canary Islands and co-financed by the Feder are Energy audit of the El Rosario water extraction wells (4,102 euros), Renovation of the interior lighting system of the Llano del Moro sports center (45,940 euros), Renovation of the interior lighting system of the ball field of Las Rosas (14,227 euros), renovation of the air conditioning system of the wake of La Esperanza (26,009 euros), photovoltaic installation for self-consumption in the Tabaiba treatment plant (20,251 euros) and photovoltaic installation for self-consumption at the Radazul pumping station and treatment plant (41,543 euros).
The mayor of El Rosario, Escolástico Gil, highlights in a press release that with these six new projects “we continue to make progress in achieving a more sustainable municipality, which adds to the recent installation of 469 photovoltaic modules in nine dependencies with which 197 tons of carbon dioxide will not be emitted into the atmosphere. For his part, the Councilor for Ecological Transition, Fidel Vázquez, underlines that “Rosario is the second municipality that has managed to get the most projects out and that is thanks to the great work that the technicians of the Department of Ecological Transition carry out to present an important volume of projects to this type of help lines».
