PP urges Cabildo to set energy planning regulations
“Fuerteventura lacks an updated Island Planning Plan or an approved Energy Territorial Plan, leaving the island unprotected and at the mercy of article 6‑bis.”
The Popular Party of Fuerteventura (PP) criticizes in a statement “the lack of initiative and the negligence of the Cabildo of Fuerteventura in energy planning. In relation to the recent joint manifesto of the Cabildos of Fuerteventura and Lanzarote on Renewable Acceleration Zones (ZAR), the PP points out that the current situation affecting the territory is a direct consequence of the island institution’s inability to approve its own planning instruments.”
For the PP, “it is contradictory that the Cabildo rejects the ZAR model, claiming defence of the landscape and island autonomy, when in practice it has been three years of government without any progress on the Energy Territorial Plan of Fuerteventura. This lack of territorial planning is precisely what forces the application of article 6‑bis of Law 11/1997 regulating the Canary electric sector. In fact, if Fuerteventura already had that document, most renewable projects that have requested to be installed on the island would have had to conform to the planning.”
The PP spokesperson in the Cabildo, Claudio Gutiérrez, laments that the Presidency prefers to maintain a “disordered renewables” scenario rather than assume its technical responsibility.
“We agree that the territory comes first, but the territory is protected by approving the Energy Territorial Plan or revising the Island Planning Plan (PIOF). What we ask for is dialogue and, above all, realistic proposals, not just complaints about measures that come from outside due to the inaction of those responsible for the territory on our island,” Gutiérrez says.
The PP also denounces what it considers “a lack of coherence from the governing group for not applying for the aid offered by the Canary Government’s Ministry of Ecological Transition and Energy to implement renewables in anthropised areas such as rooftops or parking lots. According to the PP, this was the opportunity to demonstrate, with concrete actions, a commitment to an alternative model to the large installations on rustic land that they now criticize in the manifesto.”
The Popular Party requests “that decision‑making capacity be recovered through its own management and not through institutional confrontation. The PP emphasizes that the energy emergency and climate change require the Cabildo to do its job to avoid that the energy transition be carried out in a progressive and coherent way.”
“Fuerteventura’s energy sovereignty is not defended with signatures on paper, but with plans approved in the Official Gazette. If the Cabildo does not assume its responsibility and order, others will have to do it for us,” Gutiérrez concluded.