Behind the grandiose names and the rhetoric about decarbonization, what's really happening in the offices of the General Directorate of Energy in Las Palmas is a straightforward transfer of ownership rights. The beneficiary has the name of a subsidiary, Mocán Renovables, SL, but its DNA belongs to the Ecoener galaxy, the group led by Luis de Valdivia, which has found its own El Dorado in southern Gran Canaria.
The list of those affected is a stark illustration of power and inheritance in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana. There is no bureaucratic mercy. Among the names appearing in the expropriation annex, the Rodríguez Hernández family stands out, headed by Adoración Hernández Perdomo. They are being deprived of a permanent easement of no less than 104.571 square meters of rustic land in Plot 18 of Polygon 11A vast amount of agricultural land will be converted from growing tomatoes or fodder to "growing" silicon.
The announcement of file ER211834 is the death knell for the autonomy of several landowners and long-established families in the Llanos de Juan Grande. Under the pretext of "hybridizing" the San Bartolomé wind farm—a technical euphemism for installing more than 10.000 solar panels where wind turbines already exist—the administration is preparing to steamroll the project with the power of Public Utility.
The Names of Sacrifice: From Lineage to Corporation
But Ecoener's hunger doesn't stop at families. It also bites at large agricultural empires. Agrícola Bonny, SL and Juliano Bonny Gómez SRL are seeing their 2,2-kilometer evacuation line cut off more than 1.500 meters of land. Not even the Castillo Bravo family of Laguna, a name synonymous with living history on the island, are spared the advance of renewables: Alejandro and Pedro Fernando del Castillo, along with the Tinojai Real Estate Group, appear on the list of those designated to have their energy flow to the Aldea Blanca substation.
The green bubble and the "lucrative business" budget
The operation amounts to 3,3 million euros. A budget that seems like pocket change for a publicly traded group that benefits from a system where the landscape bears the risk and the public utility is paid for by the local residents. It's about hybridization, optimization, and inflating the balance sheet while emptying the territory of its original meaning. Southern Gran Canaria has become a Monopoly board where the green pieces always win. It doesn't matter if it's protected agricultural land; when the General Directorate of Energy says "Public Utility," property rights dissolve like sugar in coffee.
According to official sources at Ecoener
This is a file from 2023 that was ultimately abandoned, so the project has not been carried out."
