Yes, we are brothers, every May 30, Canary Islands Day. Just as we do not like that there are experts from Tenerife employers interfering in the tourism business in the south of Gran Canaria, we also do not like that they intend to follow the model of Loro Parque with Siam Park of considering that Playa del Inglés is a Tenerife neighborhood. And now it's time for the energy of the south of Gran Canaria with geothermal energy.
This end of 2023 it has been confirmed that a company from the Cabildo de Tenerife wants to arbitrate the survey in Tirajana for the search for energy. What does an island government of Tenerife that has dozens of bankrupt public companies exploring geothermal energy in Gran Canaria look like? The same as the public telecommunications cable company in Tenerife that Melenara uses for its interests: influence with the control of suppliers and generating that perception of inertia. Endesa, which is a regional company based in Gran Canaria, with headquarters and engineers with extensive experience in the southeast of the island, has gotten out of the way and in Tenerife they have the Tenerife-based Disa as an industrial partner.
It is a resource that takes advantage of the high temperatures of the inner layers of the Earth to produce heat and light. They want to carry out tests to carry out tastings in Tirajana and extract energy although it is not known if the town councils of the region have given permission for this or plan to do so. Deep or high-temperature geothermal energy is associated with thermal anomalies of the Earth's crust where the geothermal gradient, instead of being normal (30°C/km), is much higher (up to 200°C/km). These anomalies are usually mainly linked to volcanically active areas.
The person who directs this process in Gran Canaria for technical purposes is Nemesio Pérez, director of the Environment of the Institute of Technology and Renewable Energies (ITER), a company parallel to the ITC of Pozo Izquierdo and which the Cabildo of Tenerife created when it realized that the engineers Gran Canaria did not give access to placing projects with no future such as that famous telecommunications node that evaporated and in which the former leader of the Spanish right after Manuel Fraga, Antonio Hernández Mancha, was working.
The Cabildo of Gran Canaria has given access to this scenario of energy exploitation of the island by Tenerife through an entity created in parallel in 2005 to control all the subsoil information of the islands from the Cabildo of Tenerife and compete with the Geomining Institute National (IGN) called Involcán. At the moment, 15 million euros have been requested from the central government to carry out surveys in Gran Canaria with the presence of Involcán. In Tenerife, ITER has requested 100 million euros in alliance with its Involcán and the oil company Disa that "will help the island's energy sovereignty at a time of emergency and with the threat of blackouts." The projects will be completed before the end of 2026.
In addition to the energy issue, there are expenses to promote purchases in open commercial zones and telecommunications. This December, the Cabildo of Tenerife has carried out a business event in Telde: one of its submarine cables company has a business anchored in Gran Canaria with Vodafone. This is normal in the context of technology transfer but here the Cabildo of Tenerife has not offered the Gran Canarian to be a partner.
