<![CDATA[Ara Balears in English - photovoltaic parks]]> 10 <![CDATA[A photovoltaic atlas that doesn't know Catalan]]> We read in the ARA Baleares, in a News from Laura López Rigo, the Balearic Government has presented a Photovoltaic Atlas of the Balearic Islands, a digital and interactive device that allows you to check how many solar panels fit on the roof of your house or any building on these islands. Not only that; it also includes the approximate cost of installing the panels, the energy savings they represent, their cost-effectiveness, and, ultimately, everything you need to know when installing solar panels on your own house, apartment building, office building, garage, farm, or whatever. This atlas is a good tool, one of those that, when you read the news, makes you exclaim: "It's about time." An atlas like this allows us to advance the implementation of non-polluting energy (essential and increasingly urgent) in the right way: installing solar panels in urban centers—taking advantage of rooftops, decks, and other already built-up areas—and not converting farmland into solar panel fields.

]]> <![CDATA[The Government declares seven photovoltaic parks and two storage systems in Mallorca as strategic projects.]]>

The Government has declared a total of seven photovoltaic energy projects and two storage systems on the island of Mallorca as strategic projects. This declaration was made through the Balearic Islands Industry Council, an advisory body attached to the Ministry of Business, Self-Employed Workers, and Energy.

]]> <![CDATA[The Government begins to plan where, how and in what way it wants renewable energy in the Balearic Islands.]]>

The Government is beginning to promote the project that "will define where, how, and how the future of renewable energy will be developed in the Balearic Islands," according to the Regional Minister of Business, Employment, and Energy, Alejandro Sáenz de San Pedro. The Renewable Energy Acceleration Zones in the Balearic Islands (ZARIB) are included in the decree law of urgent measures to accelerate strategic projects, which was approved last Friday by the Governing Council.

]]> <![CDATA[Forty mega solar parks will circumvent the ban]]>

The processing of around forty large solar park projects affecting 1,200 hectares of rural land will move forward despite the Parliament's unanimous ban on eliminating the fast-track program reserved for strategic industrial projects. The measure responds to an amendment by MÁS, which called for a halt to the flood of large-scale projects that had taken advantage of strategic status to obtain the approval of the Governing Council without imposing filters or territorial criteria on their implementation.

]]> <![CDATA[The failed industrialization of Lloseta, the origin of the 'sieve' of the large solar parks]]>

Law 14/2019 on strategic industrial projects in the Balearic Islands was passed during the Pact government (in 2019) to combat total dependence on tourism, but over time it became a real sieve for large-scale solar park projects, "and little else," laments an administration technician who is asking for the year.

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