The La Laguna City Council is “studying and evaluating other alternatives for energy communities that involve a lower cost for the City Council and, above all, that are extensible to most areas of the municipality.”
This is how the Councilor for the Environment, Ángel Miguel Hernández Chinea, responded to a question from Unidas se puede, in the last plenary session last Thursday, about the status of the procedures to favor the constitution of energy communities taking advantage of the roofs of public buildings. , citizen centers and school centers for the location of photovoltaic installations.
Specifically, in September of last year it was reported that the City Council had planned to temporarily transfer the roofs of public facilities located in Punta del Hidalgo, Las Carboneras, San Diego and Finca España for the photovoltaic installations necessary for the implementation of energy communities. and that would include citizen centers, the Camino Largo school, the Juan Ríos Tejera pavilion and the Islas Canarias sports complex.
In this regard, Chinea responded that “it is a very complex procedure on whose initial proposal we continue to work but on which we have been forced to request both legal and technical reports, especially on the technical feasibility, the regime of rights and obligations. that must be established or the possible transfers of use to be made.”
Reason why “other alternatives for energy communities are also being studied and evaluated,” he added.
It should be remembered that an energy community is an organization of people, SMEs and local authorities that, under the support of a legal entity, are organized to produce, democratically manage and consume renewable energy locally and in the best economic conditions for their associates and associated.
