The Minister of Territory, Mobility and Infrastructures, Fernando Rubio, has visited today the centre of the motorway of Inca that already has renewable energy.

The Consell de Mallorca is installing photovoltaic panels at the three road maintenance centres on the island’s motorways. The aim is for these facilities to operate with the renewable energy produced by the panels and, at the same time, to charge the electric vehicles available to Carreteras. This is a commitment by the island institution to self-consumption through clean energy.

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The Consell de Mallorca installs photovoltaic panels for self-consumption and vehicle charging at motorway maintenance centres

The councillor for Territory, Mobility and Infrastructures, Fernando Rubio, visited the new installation today, which is already in operation at the maintenance centre on the Inca motorway (Ma-13). The self-consumption installations at the maintenance centres on the airport motorway (Ma-19) and the Manacor road (Ma-15) are expected to be operational before the end of 2024. These are self-consumption installations with 40.28 kilowatts of power, have two recharging points for electric vehicles, and cost 60,000 euros each. The energy that is not used will be fed into the general grid.

Fernando Rubio explained that “the Consell de Mallorca is working to ensure that more and more facilities and infrastructures can be supplied with renewable energy through self-consumption”. In the next few weeks,” added the Minister of Territory, Mobility and Infrastructures, “the new lighting in the Genova tunnel will come into operation, and before the end of the year the three maintenance centres, such as this one on the Inca motorway, will be able to use self-consumption and charge the Carreteras electric vehicles. Likewise, we are currently studying an ambitious project so that the lighting of roads and roundabouts can also be supplied by renewable energies with photovoltaic panels”.