<![CDATA[Ara Balears in English - renewables]]> 10 <![CDATA[Renewable energy capacity will grow by 10% in the Balearic Islands by 2025 and will already represent almost a quarter of the total.]]>

The Balearic Islands have increased their installed renewable energy capacity by 10.1% in 2025, rising from a total of 541 MW to 596 MW. This increase allows for a power map of the Islands where almost a quarter (24.4%) comes from renewable sources, the vast majority of which (91.8%) is renewable.

]]> <![CDATA[The irrational planning of renewables]]> The Balearic Islands, and Mallorca in particular, face a key moment in defining their present and future in terms of energy and land use. The energy transition is an urgent challenge, yes, but what should be an opportunity to democratize energy, reduce emissions, and protect the land is becoming a threat to the very territory they claim to want to preserve. This attack, in short, adds to the disfigurement of rural land, which, through amnesties and reclassifications, is valued more as investment land than as a vital ecological asset, which it is. The proposal to delimit Priority Development Zones (PDZs) by the Mallorcan Council is a clear example of this: irrational planning, disconnected from the island's energy, territorial, and environmental reality.

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