Government expands self-consumption for urbanizations and industrial estates

The maximum 500 meters between where solar panels are installed and where they can be consumed limits the possibility of expanding this technology. large communities, According to the general manager of Unef, Joseph Donoso After Aagesen’s announcement. “(Expand to extension) opens the possibility: a community, a town, an urbanization or an industrial area It generates electrical energy by itself,” he adds. At the moment, the Government is not making a statement. how much will it expand this limit; but “at least,” adds Donoso, 2 kilometers at low voltage and 5 kilometers at high voltage “Homogenizing” Spain with “other countries in the periphery”. An example France, Germany or Portugal where the boundary is between these two variables.

This measure is an old request from the ERC and specifically its spokesperson at the Environmental Transformation Commission. Congress of Deputies, Joan Capdevila, whenever possible, persistently wanted to extend this extension because, as Donoso explained in a phone interview and agreed with, “500 meters greatly limits the possibility of grouping.” “An energetic community in Turkey the center of Madrid or Barcelona, ​​limited to 500 meters, comes together many consumers Y very little capture surface,” he explains.

Capdvila is not only dedicated to major cities and the expansion of agreements between different buildings, but also to smaller towns. “For example, a central municipality of catalonia where you can put slurry treatment plant inside normal sized industrial site and the town hall has ‘placeable’ surfaces such as the roof of the building. sports center or schools. All this can also be integrated into a single energy community. optimize consumption” Add. “What this does is democratize. If we expand (extension), we increase the probability of grouping and above all, a public-private agreement and agreements between private parties”.

However, the Government is always very silent to this possibility. “we need us steady growth ours ability to generate electricity from renewable resourceswith possibilities Small-sizeddirectly with the installations for which it was designed, initially, self consumptioneither through an energy community or for private self-consumption and supports network resiliencewith risk reductionrequires it to be cautious about lengthening and distance tolerated regarding the point of consumption and nothing more that explains it Why was this distance limitation introduced? said the vice president Theresa Rivera last 30 June at the Congress of Deputies.