Offensive to put photovoltaic panels in the institutes of Catalonia

BarcelonaThe Generalitat's public electricity company L’Energètica has launched a campaign to deploy photovoltaic solar installations in Catalonia's public education network. In the coming months, the public renewable energy company will install 234 new solar installations on rooftops, which will be added to the 107 projects already completed, as the company reported this Thursday.

Once the campaign is finished, the public company will have an installed capacity on high school rooftops of 56 MW. This priority deployment in the education sector allows progress towards the goal that by 2028 all technically suitable high school roofs will have solar panels. The total of 341 installations, between those completed and those in progress, represents more than half of the viable centers, and L’Energètica is already planning the execution of the rest to achieve this goal.

The 341 installations are distributed geographically as follows: the metropolitan area of Barcelona will host 177 projects; the Girona counties, 52; Camp de Tarragona, 44; Penedès, 34; Central Catalonia, 21; the Ponent area, 6; Terres de l'Ebre, 4; and Alt Pirineu and Aran, 3. The boost to renewable generation on school center rooftops allows them to be supplied with clean, local energy, and also facilitates the sharing of this energy with nearby public facilities.

This type of distribution, called collective self-consumption, allows the excess energy generated on rooftops to be distributed to other public centers of the Generalitat located within a five-kilometer radius – such as Mossos d'Esquadra police stations, judicial facilities, or primary care centers (CAPs) – which results in economic savings for public facilities.

1,000 MW by 2040

The company L’Energètica (Public Renewable Energies of Catalonia, SAU) is the public company of the Generalitat de Catalunya that has the mission to multiply the generation of renewable energy to supply the public services of the Catalan administration. The company's objective is that by 2040, it can manage a generation park of at least 1,000 MW that guarantees clean, local energy at stable prices for citizens through its public services.