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The CANALUZ company will offer a free financing system to provide solar panels to 1.000 homes in the south of Gran Canaria

The CANALUZ company will offer a free financing system to provide solar panels to 1.000 homes in the south of Gran Canaria

MASPALOMAS24H Wednesday, July 13, 2022

The seminar 'Turn off the light to see the light' will be held from July 18 to 20 at the Maspalomas Cultural Center

 

The XXX Maspalomas Summer University will hold a week dedicated to Renewable Energy from July 18 to 20, organized by CANALUZ, a leading Canarian company in the regional clean energy market, which will offer a free financing system for the decarbonization of 1.000 homes in the South of Gran Canaria, the tourist area with the highest number of hours of sunshine per year.

 

Thanks to this promotion, a pioneer in the Canary Islands, the first thousand people who come to the seminar 'Turn off the light to see the light', which will be held at the Maspalomas Cultural Center, will be able to benefit from this promotion offered by Canaluz and which will allow you to provide photovoltaic panels in your homes in the south of Gran Canaria.

 

In addition, a group of professionals will answer all the questions that users have about the electricity bill, good habits for energy saving, or the best low consumption rates, as well as the importance and advantages of implementing the use of renewable energies, to turn your home into a sustainable and more energy efficient place.

 

Registration for the 'Turn off the light to see the light' workshops (€20), which will be held at the Maspalomas Cultural Center (Avenida de Tejeda, 72, San Fernando), from 17:30 p.m. to 20:30 p.m., can be done on the website: https://www.universidadveranomaspalomas.org/materias/103/

 

On Monday, July 20 (from 17:30 p.m. to 18:30 p.m.), Lorenzo Rafael Muñoz González, industrial engineer and technical director of Canaluz, will answer different questions related to sustainable energy: 'How to save on your electricity bill?' 'Tricks to reduce your electricity bill', Energy efficiency customs and integration of solar energy collection elements in structures: solar roof tiles, canopies, solar curves, solar façade coverings', among other issues.

 

Next, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Lorenzo Rafael Muñoz will explain 'How to decarbonize the Canary Islands economy? Integrated projects. Investment models'. Following this, from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m., experts Rafael González Alonso, CEO of Izpitek Solar-Solarface, and José Ramón Zagalaz Jiménez, account manager for renewables at Deutsche Bank in Las Palmas, will discuss ' Financing tools and subsidies for self-consumption and energy efficiency installations in homes and businesses'.

 

On Wednesday, July 20, Lorenzo Rafael Muñoz González, industrial engineer and technical director of Canaluz infinite, will speak from 17:30 p.m. to 19:00 p.m., who will talk about 'Strategies for Canarian decarbonization'. Next, from 19.00:20.30 p.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m., Rafael González Alonso, CEO of Izpitek Solar-Solarface, and José Ramón Zagalaz Jiménez, account manager for renewables at Deutsche Bank in Las Palmas, will explain the importance of 'Photovoltaic installations for self-consumption and discharge into the grid' . 

 

This initiative responds to the exorbitant price of traditional, fossil and polluting energy, and the difficulties that exist for the energy transition to reach all families. For this reason, CANALUZ, within its environmental commitment and the benefit that this campaign represents to avoid contaminating our planet, has wanted to make the possibility of equipping their homes with solar panels available to all economies, which represents savings in your consumer bill, with very important financing conditions.

 

For the Canarian company, the objective is to achieve the complete decarbonization of the residential housing stock and the non-hotel sector in the South of Gran Canaria, within the Sustainable Tourism program, included in Objective 11 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Sustainable Cities and Communities and in line with the commitment of the Government of Spain to promote this energy figure. 

 

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