The La Laguna City Council, through the departments of Environment and Municipal Services and Works and Infrastructure, has completed the installation work of photovoltaic panels for self-consumption in eight citizen centers in the municipality. The total budget for these interventions amounts to about 460,000 euros.
The mayor of La Laguna, Luis Yeray Gutiérrez, explained that “these actions are aimed at advancing on the path of ecological transition and the implementation of renewable energies in the municipality, in turn reducing energy dependence and the environmental impact of the facilities. public”.
The citizen centers in which these renewable facilities have been enabled are Las Mantecas, San Miguel de Chimisay I, Valle de Guerra, San Matías II, Punta del Hidalgo, San Bartolomé de Geneto, San Luis Gonzaga and Valle Jiménez.
Luis Yeray Gutiérrez thanked the work carried out by the previous Government team in promoting this set of works focused on the “green transformation of our citizen centers.” He also recalled that the actions are co-financed by the City Council and by the Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, within the framework of the Sustainable Growth Operational Program of the European Regional Development Fund.
The councilor responsible for the Environment, Ángel Chinea, added that, in parallel to these works, the project to install plaques in the El Tranvía Multifunctional Center, the offices of the Local Police Station and the public parking lot of Las Quinteras.
Chinea explained that, as this project contemplated at the beginning, the idea is to extend these actions to other facilities in the municipality to reduce the overall energy footprint of La Laguna and reduce the City Council’s energy expenditure so that these released funds can be allocated to other areas of interest to the population.
On the other hand, the councilor responded recently, in the last plenary session, that the Area continues working on the “initial proposal” of the energy communities that comes from the previous mandate, taking advantage of the roofs of public buildings for photovoltaic installations, but he acknowledged that “it is a very complex procedure and we have been forced to request both legal and technical reports.” Reason why “other alternatives for energy communities are also being studied,” he added.
