The green energy cooperative Som Energia has completed the installation of its new Urban Generation Project (GURB) in Llinars del Vallès, which will primarily serve Cardedeu. This is the second GURB to be launched, following the one in Mataró, and is expected to be operational during the first quarter of 2026. The project's photovoltaic panels will distribute energy among residents and businesses in the area who join the project, in a shared self-consumption model that will allow them access to the panels. The installation, located in a warehouse in the Llinars Park industrial park, consists of 480 solar panels and has a capacity of 200 kW. It is estimated that it can serve between 250 and 300 homes and businesses in Cardedeu and part of Llinars del Vallès, within a two-kilometer radius. "With this project, we're taking another step towards bringing renewable energy generation closer to people, right in their own neighborhoods," explains Carles Adell, a member of the new generation projects team at Som Energia. This project is part of Som Energia's commitment to promoting a shared, local, and democratic self-consumption model that connects consumers with available spaces for installing solar panels. It also reinforces the cooperative's commitment to a fair and participatory energy transition.

The irresponsibility of the People's Party governments' imposing the so-called "tax on the sun" (which forced energy self-consumers to pay additional tax) will go down in history books as an example of bad government and political and environmental short-sightedness. It delayed for many years the process of energy transition in the State, and this means that now we have to hurry to achieve minimum standards which in other countries have been the norm for some time. This is proved by the fact that since the repeal of the tax that penalised self-consumption, the number of new installations multiplied, as has the power installed, and not only by individuals but also by companies. At a time when the price of electricity is skyrocketing due to the type of tariff system in Spain – which penalises the consumer, since the energy produced in fossil fuel plants such as gas, which is more expensive and polluting, is the one that ends up setting the final price – the option of self-consumption, despite the initial investment, is gaining more and more followers.