High electricity costs have become the main enemy for companies’ activities, but depending on their size, effective solutions are more or less difficult to find. This is how the Alicante Chamber saw this, when it decided to encourage the implementation of energy communities in order to lower the bill for small businesses, especially those who are self-employed and do not have the opportunity to install solar panels. self consumption. The plan is in preparation, although the body maintains contacts to this end with the Generalitat, the Provincial Assembly and the state’s 17 city councils.
The unstoppable rise in energy prices is stringing the entire economic fabric, cutting profit margins and even jeopardizing the viability of some businesses. While the situation is generally quite worrying, small companies with the fewest alternatives available to them is to face.
Chamber president Carlos Baño said, “The largest companies with their own factories and warehouses, they can install solar panels on roofs or even resort to installing wind turbines.Benefiting from aid from European funds or through Ivace,” he adds. The problem is with establishments that “do not have this opportunity”, often on the ground floors of buildings.
Therefore, the chamber organization he manages embarked on a plan for the creation of energy communities, taking advantage of a legislative change that would allow connections more than five kilometers away. “It’s about – he points out – looking for places to install solar power plants so that small businesses around benefit from energy produced at prices below the market“.
In this sense, Parliament It maintains contacts with 17 municipalities as well as Consell and Diputación Those who have previously participated in a program of the provincial institution on renewable energies. According to Baño, “We started there, but our goal is to reach more municipalities across all political lines because we are a white label and our obligation is to work for the entire fabric of business. In terms of hours of sunshine, we should take advantage of it and make the most of it at a time as critical as we are going through it. We should take advantage of it”.