Do you want to know how many solar panels you can put on your roof?
The Government has presented a tool that allows to know the photovoltaic potential of the roofs of all the buildings in the Islands.
The Government presented this Thursday thePhotovoltaic Atlas of the Balearic Islands, an interactive digital tool that allows users to determine the photovoltaic potential of the roofs of all buildings and properties on the islands. This initiative advances environmental sustainability and energy self-sufficiency without generating additional land consumption. Through this application, anyone can consult the maximum and optimal number of panels that a property or building can accommodate, the estimated investment, the percentage of self-sufficiency, the expected annual savings, and the return on investment period.
Furthermore, the tool allows users to evaluate photovoltaic potential by municipality, disaggregate data by sectors—industrial, residential, or tertiary—and distinguish between public and private properties. This data provides the government, local administrations, the private sector, and citizens with a solid basis for identifying the most suitable urban spaces for installing solar panels and more efficiently planning public energy transition policies.
According to the overall results, the Photovoltaic Atlas estimates a potential economic saving of 452 million euros annually for households, businesses and administrations if the available solar potential on the Archipelago's rooftops is fully exploited. Furthermore, photovoltaic production would reach 2,480 gigawatt hours per year, a figure equivalent to 50-60% of the annual domestic electricity consumption of the Balearic Islands.
Fully exploiting this potential would make it possible to cover up to 22% of the Autonomous Community's electricity consumption with locally generated solar energy, without the need to occupy more land, and reduce CO2 emissions by 928,000 tons.2 annually, equivalent to the emissions of more than 400,000 vehicles.
The project cost—which includes the study of photovoltaic potential and the development of the web tool—was €95,000 (excluding VAT), funded by the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). The project is complete and has guaranteed maintenance for two years. The tool is available free of charge to all municipalities and citizens of the Balearic Islands.
