The General Energy Directorate of the Government of the Canary Islands has recently granted a subsidy to the Local Energy Community (CEL) El Rosario Solar to promote decarbonisation in the industrial sector, within the framework of the sustainable energy strategy in the Canary Islands funded by the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. “El Rosario Solar will become the largest Local Energy Community in Spain with its two megawatts of installed photovoltaic power and one megawatt per hour of battery storage,” El Rosario Town Hall stated in a press release.
The initial installations are already completed, and throughout this month of June, CEL member-consumers will be self-consuming renewable energy, resulting in savings of up to 70% on their electricity bills and reducing carbon dioxide emissions to combat climate change.
The El Rosario Solar photovoltaic self-consumption energy installations project consists of designing a series of photovoltaic installations on rooftops for collective self-consumption at the San Isidro-El Chorrillo Industrial Estate, known as La Campana, and its electrical distribution microgrid. With an available area of 154,200 square meters, the renewable energy generation activity located on the rooftops can be consumed in the industrial units of the aforementioned estate and in residential areas, residential communities, and businesses within a two-kilometre radius.
La Campana Industrial Estate is the chosen location to implement this energy model through which its members, using green energy, can produce, manage, and consume electricity generated cleanly and in a self-managed way. In this manner, the aim is to reduce electricity bills and share the operating costs of the photovoltaic panels to be installed on the estate’s units.
“This shared self-consumption puts the management of energy into the hands of citizens with extremely high values in economic, social, and environmental terms, such as, for example, a residential unit in an apartment block without a roof being able to receive renewable energy from La Campana Industrial Estate, as if the photovoltaic panels were installed on its rooftop,” as stated in the council’s press release.
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It is worth noting that last April saw the launch of the execution phase for the installation of photovoltaic self-consumption systems associated with “El Rosario Solar,” which also included the presentation of accreditation awards to about ten companies in the estate as the first to be part of the rooftop leasing for the installation of solar panels and sharing the generated electricity.
