The Government of the Balearic Islands together with the governments of the Valencian Community, Catalonia and Castilla La Mancha, and the city councils of Badajoz, Seville and El Prat de Llobregat have launched this Tuesday a proposal to transpose the Renewables and Internal Energy Market Directives within the framework of the conference ‘A new impulse in the energy communities’ organized by the Consellería de Agricultura, Desarrollo Rural, Emergencia Climática y Transición Ecológica del Govern Valencià.

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The signatory administrations propose a transposition text to promote energy communities, and ask for a favourable legal framework that allows them to access an economic regime of renewables, facilities in access to the network, the extension of the consideration of nearby installation up to 5MW and 5km distance, among others. In this sense, the initiative proposes a regulatory framework for renewable energy communities (CER) and citizen energy communities (CEE) with the aim of promoting the open and voluntary participation of citizens and local entities in the renewable electricity system.

The managing director of the Balearic Energy Institute, Ferran Rosa, who participated in this meeting on behalf of the Government of the Balearic Islands, stressed that “this proposal is essential to achieve, once and for all, the democratization of energy. It is proposed to overcome the current legal framework and put us on a par with the best examples in Europe”.

As agreed by the different institutional bodies, the proposal must give impetus to the energy communities and facilitate the introduction of renewable energies in the territory, which will result in a reduction of the electricity bill. The promoters will transfer the proposal to the rest of the territories via FEMP, in order to achieve a greater number of adhesions and present the proposal to the Ministry of Ecological Transition.

It should be noted that the Government of the Balearic Islands considers that the energy communities are a key element in the democratization of energy. In fact, last November 26, the Government signed, through the Balearic Energy Institute and in collaboration with ASINEM and the City Council of Marratxí, an agreement to promote the establishment of energy communities in the industrial area of Marratxí. “We also want to be leaders in these new forms of collective self-production, making a more competitive and sustainable productive sector”, emphasized Rosa.