The three mayors of the Southeastern municipalities held a meeting with the director of the Port Authority of Las Palmas, Francisco Trujillo
The installation of a wind turbine on the dock of the Port of Arinaga will reduce the costs of desalination and water purification in the Region
With this 4,5 megawatt mill, 25% of the energy consumed by these facilities managed by the Commonwealth of the Southeast will be clean
The three mayors of the municipalities that make up the Commonwealth of the Southeast of Gran Canaria, Francisco García, Óscar Hernández and Ana Hernández, have today requested the director of the Port Authority of Las Palmas, Francisco Trujillo, to accelerate the project for the installation of a self-consumption wind turbine in the Port of Arinaga.
The company Megaturbuinas Arinaga, formed by the Government of the Canary Islands, through the Technological Institute of the Canary Islands; the Cabildo of Gran Canaria, with the Economic Promotion Society; and the Port Authority of Las Palmas, through its Foundation, began processing the file in 2016 to install this 4,5 megawatt windmill on the port breakwater located in the municipality of Agüimes.
Once installed, the wind turbine will produce nearly 16 million kilowatts per hour, which will allow the Commonwealth of the Southeast to complete the integral water cycle and reduce the consumption of the treatment plant and desalination plant managed by the entity and that supplies the three municipalities in the region.
However, this project, which has a cost of 9 million euros to be borne by the Commonwealth of the Southeast, “has been in the works for several years,” explained the president of the inter-municipal entity and mayor of Santa Lucía de Tirajana, Francisco García, so The mayors have today conveyed to the Port Authority their request to “promote” the file “in order to continue moving forward.”
With the start-up of this mill, 25% of the energy consumed by the desalination plant and the treatment plant will be clean energy, which, complemented by other smaller mills and photovoltaic plants that the Commonwealth of Municipalities of the Southeast has already located in these facilities, will allow the entity to continue working on its objective of desalinating with non-polluting energy one hundred percent of the water consumed in this region.
At the end of the meeting, the mayors were satisfied with the response of the representative of the Port Authority, who "has made himself available to the Commonwealth to resolve any technical and legal doubts and try to expedite the file."
