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Entrepreneurs admit that renewable energies in the Canary Islands are still "very wasted"

The cluster of Renewable Energies, Environment and Water Resources of the Canary Islands (Ricam) and the Canarian Wind Association (Aeolican) have trusted, as detailed in a statement, that the General Administration of the State plans an energy model that gives "the prominence that renewables deserve and especially wind energy in the production of electricity in the Archipelago".

This is how both organizations value the recent approval, by the Council of Ministers, of a regulation that affects the remuneration of wind and solar thermal energy. "Despite representing a significant reduction in the support they receive, especially burdensome for the Canary Islands, the decree proposes a target for the islands of an additional 600 megawatts of wind energy, but it is still insufficient," they point out.

According to data from the Ricam and Aeolican cluster, "the penetration of renewables in the Archipelago is well below our capacity and the national average". In fact, the savings represented by wind energy in the Islands must be reflected in exceptional measures for the Canary Islands, such as not limiting the production that receives premium, which is discrimination with respect to conventional energies and a disincentive for a sector that, in the Archipelago, generates savings for all Spaniards. "

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At the same time, they express the urgency of betting on this energy through a "specific regulation" for the Canary Islands, as it exists for conventional energies, as well as technical solutions and greater social and political awareness to have clean and cheap energy in the Islands.

In addition, the Council of Ministers recognizes that "wind energy will displace other conventional energies that in the Islands, due to their situation, have a higher cost". "The overall savings estimated in the General State Budgets is 31.2 million euros in the short term, which will amount to 89.6 million euros at the end."

This saving, according to the note, will represent approximately 10 percent of the extra cost that the State currently pays in the Archipelago for the generation of electricity, but this will depend, in short, on the Government of the Canary Islands speeding up the procedures for the execution of wind farms.

"The new decree maintains for the Islands the remuneration established in 2007, but limiting it to a number of hours of production. Wind power in the Archipelago aspires to compete directly in the electricity market, without having to resign itself to a regulated tariff that is now preventing its growth," say both organizations. The reference study on the cost overruns of electricity in the Canary Islands, prepared this year by the Ricam cluster and presented to the autonomous Executive, as well as the research carried out by an independent consultancy for Aeolican, demonstrate the ability of wind energy to considerably increase its contribution to electricity consumed at a lower cost than fossil fuels. (EUROPA PRESS)

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