SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, September 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The current president of Fecai, Casimiro Curbelo, has appealed to the unity of all institutions to respond to “a serious situation”, which places the islands in a position “of extreme vulnerability” in terms of the stability of the island electricity generation systems.
In this sense, Casimiro Curbelo urged the application of extraordinary measures and the modification of the regulations that are necessary “to put an end to the generation deficits and the problems that thermal power plants currently present”, from a comprehensive planning that combines renewable energies with start-up of the generation infrastructure planned for each of the islands.
This was stated in statements to the media after a Fecai assembly in which the Minister of Ecological Transition and Energy of the Government of the Canary Islands, Mariano Zapata, presented the document declaring an energy emergency in the Canary Islands, which is expected to be raised next October to the Government Council.
The text proposes the basis of the line to be followed between city councils, councils, the Government of the Canary Islands and the State Executive, in addition to other public administrations and private entities, in order to guarantee the electricity supply in the Canary Islands, while promoting and developing renewable energies. and storage systems.
The counselor explained that the Ministry has accepted some of the modifications proposed by some of the councils and has also highlighted the importance of “working together and having the consensus of the island councils, because in this way, the decisions that are made take will be from all the Canary Islands and for all the Canary Islands”.
The regional official recalled that regardless of whether clean energy generation is intensified on the islands, the current situation makes it necessary to renew the thermal generation plants in order to guarantee the electricity supply.
The final objective of the declaration of energy emergency is to record that the situation of vulnerability and deficit that currently exists in the island electrical systems has gone from being a temporary problem to becoming a structural one that compromises the guarantee of electricity supply.
At the same time, the text includes a series of proposals, in accordance with the Sustainable Development Goals, to achieve the decarbonization of the energy system on the islands. All taking into account that the contribution of fossil combustion plants was 84% in 2019 and should be, at most, 42% in 2030.
To achieve this, it is necessary that, while guaranteeing the electricity supply with emergency measures, the development of equipment that has the ability to adapt to achieve the energy transition is taken into account.
