The Government of Cantabria, through the Ministry of Industry, Employment, Innovation and Trade, has provided almost €1.5 million in support to the region’s municipal councils to own consumption and the energy storage with renewable energy sourcesas well as with the implementation of renewable thermal systems, which are all systems that use renewable energy to generate heat or cold in appliances such as heaters, boilers or refrigerators, with a generation capacity of 1.79 megawatts.
Focus on own consumption and renewable energy sources
In concrete terms, 40 actions corresponding to 16 municipal councils have been processed, of which more than one million euros were allocated in the last resolution of the Directorate General for Industry, Energy and Mines of December, where in this case the processing 18 actions corresponding to 5 municipalities for a generation capacity of 1.27 megawatts. Aid aimed at local entities in the region to carry out actions, mainly in sports and health facilities and in education and training centers.
To all this we must add the electric vehicle charging points that the Government of Cantabria is installing in several municipalities in the region, so that municipal authorities can continue to benefit from the renewable energy through the Moves III programme for the purchase of electric vehicles and the installation of charging points for local entities, with a total budget of 929,637 euros.
The Cantabrian municipal authorities have benefited from this utility for self-consumption They are Camargo (394,495 euros), for the municipal training center, the Mateo Escagedo Salmón CEIP, the Herrera, Juan de Herrera, Matilde de la Torre and Pedro Velarde sports halls; Campoo de Yuso (47,970 euros), for the La Población sports hall; Comillas (134,268 euros), for the El Espolón Cultural Center, the CEIP Jesús Cancio and the Municipal Pavilion, and Hazas de Cesto (28,875 euros), for the Town Hall and the CEIP Jesús del Monte.
Also Miengo (12,000 euros), for the medical offices of Cudón and Miengo; Noja (38,644 euros), for the CEIP Palacio de Noja, the Town Hall, the Multipurpose Center, the CEIP Palacio de Noja Pavilion and the Youth House; Piélagos (182,160 euros), for the CEIP Las Dunas, La Estela, El Mimbral, Puente Arce and Bajo Pas, as well as the Vioño schools, and Puente Viesgo (87,500 euros), for the sports hall.
The same applies to Reinosa (324,035 euros), to the Tito Carrera and Juan Jesús Cuevas sports centers, the CEIP Alto Ebro and the municipal swimming pool; Ruiloba (25,240 euros), for the town hall, the El Remedio building and the Liandres medical office; Santander (72,540 euros), for the TUS headquarters; Santillana del Mar (33,250 euros), in front of the town hall; Udías (33,063 euros), for the Monte Coronas pumping station and the La Hayuela medical office; Valdeolea (8,690 euros), for treatment plants; Valdeprado del Río (18,249 euros), for the treatment plants, and Villaescusa (33,250 euros), for the town hall.
The branch’s counselor, Eduardo Arasti, emphasized the importance of this assistance from the ministry promote the use of renewable energy sourcesboth thermal and electrical, in the municipalities of the region, and promoting greater control over consumption through the development of storage systems and promoting industry and the related business sector.
“We must be firmly committed to decarbonisation and for that it is essential investing in green infrastructureso that we move from fossil energy to a clean and sustainable energy system,” emphasized the counselor, who reaffirmed the commitment of the Government of Cantabria to promoting self-consumption with renewable energy sources.
Arasti has highlighted the cooperation that the Government of Cantabria maintains with the region’s municipal councils solve the impact of energy costs“accelerating as much as possible the energy efficiency works and the concession resolutions and payment orders as the justifications arise to facilitate the receipt of support to the beneficiaries, thus contributing to decisively support the energy transition of the productive fabric of Cantabria.
The advisor remembered that all of this was the case aid intended for own consumption and aid for sustainable energy are financed through the funds Next generationUE and within the framework of the European Union Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan .