Canarian Coalition (CC) and the Socialist Party (PSOE) clashed this Friday over the management of the Areté and La Roca wind farms, in Granadilla, and that they will focus an extraordinary plenary session next Tuesday. The nationalists denounced “the loss of 8 million euros for the island corporation due to the mismanagement of the PSOE in the Technological Institute of Renewable Energies (ITER)” and that these facilities have been “inoperative since August 2022.”
For his part, from the insular government raised a different version. “At the moment, the wind turbines are working around 65% and we hope to be able to exceed 90% by the end of February,” said the island president, Peter Martin. «The cause of the stoppage is not attributable to the Cabildo or ITER. We find the press conference offered by the opposition unfortunate and in the coming days we will offer data that will allow us to refute the lies that have been told, “he added.
In that appearance, the nationalist councilors Antolín Bueno and Félix Fariña lamented the “lack of maintenance and stoppage” of the two aforementioned infrastructures. That of Areté is 18.4 megawatts and La Roca is 16.8, and both, as maintained by CC, have been “damaged since August 8, 2022.”
Well, he maintained this Friday that it has occurred «damage to the Cabildo of 8 million euros, approximately, which is the amount he received for the production of energy ». And he added: «On August 8, 2022, they stopped working due to the lack of maintenance of the equipment that is the property of ITER and, when we asked about this situation in the plenary session last November, the president, Pedro Martín, said that the fault It was from Iberdrola and that they would take the necessary actions to recover the money, but it really is not like that ».
«There is a report from May 12, 2021 that is delivered to the ITER Board of Directors in which it speaks of the ‘unavoidable need’ to contract maintenance for the correct operation of the parks. However, they did not, and as a result, the parks broke down and stopped working. Therefore, the responsibility fell on ITER and its leaders, Pedro Martín and Enrique Arriaga, did nothing, “records the note from the nationalist formation.
The counselor indicated that “a normal family consumes 350 kilowatt hours per month, which means 4.2 megawatt hours per year.” And he continued: «With the losses accumulated up to now due to the stoppage of these two parks, 8,500 families could have been supplied with Tenerife for a full year. That is the responsibility of the PSOE and we want them to explain this in plenary session next Tuesday.
