The Popular Party (PP) in the Cabildo de Tenerife recalls that the Plenary approved its initiative so that the hydroelectric plant that “Tenerife needs” is located in the Güímar Valley, “provided that the necessary technical criteria are met and with the aim of take advantage of the environmental deterioration caused by the extraction of aggregates in the area, which has generated holes in the ground that could become part of the structure of the future power plant.
His adviser Manuel Fernández maintains that “both the hydroelectric plant and the regasification plant (which would allow us to use a transition energy, such as natural gas) are necessary steps that have to be taken from unity and the authentic conviction that our Island, absolutely dependent from the energy point of view, it must close cycles in the necessary transition process towards renewable energies».
Manuel Fernández describes as “ironic, to say the least”, the fact that the Government of the Canary Islands “has a counselor whose area is called Fight against climate change” and, however, does not promote a single initiative that makes that premise effective” .
The need to have a hydroelectric power plant in Tenerife is centered on the fact that “we have to have the necessary infrastructure to store the excess renewable energy on the Island, as is done on El Hierro with the Gorona del Wind”. On this point, Manuel Fernández abounds, “in Tenerife, we have been debating this issue for seven years without there being the capacity or leadership to make the decisions that are necessary to have these facilities once and for all.”
Given the majority support of the Plenary Session of the Cabildo for its proposed resolution demanding the location of the island’s hydroelectric power plant in Güímar, from the Popular Party “we demand leadership capacity from this island government” to which they demand “that it make the necessary decisions that enforce this agreement adopted by the Plenary, as has already been done in Gran Canaria (Chira-Soria), where work has already begun to have its own hydroelectric plant. In this regard, Manuel Fernández puts on the table that «Gran Canaria began the procedures to have this plant 20 years ago and it is going to be built now, which is why we understand that it is so important that quick and effective decisions are made and that lead this process so that it becomes a reality as soon as possible».
