Supply in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria at the beginning of the 20th century

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Antonio Piñeiro, Director of Operations at Emalsa, continues to reconstruct the story of how the city came to have a comprehensive water system. Go to download Continuing the series dedicated to the history of water supply in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria,since the 15th centuryAnd tillbeginning of the 20th century, Antonio Piñeiro continues this week with the vicissitudes at the beginning of the last century. At that time, the city had a population of about 62,000 people, which forced the mayor, Ambrosio Hurtado de Medoza, to entrust Felipe Gutiérrez with a study for a better water supply. For this reason, new possibilities were sought from the summit's water sources. In 1906, the National Public Utility Law was approved, which allowed the necessary land to be expropriated, and in 1911 the rules for the competition to build the infrastructure capable of bringing water to the city were published. The competition was won by an English company, which obtained a concession for sixty years. However, in 1946, the company failed in its endeavor due to lack of funds and the city regained control of the water.

Floating wind energy, the renewable solution for the Canary coasts Wind turbine Wind turbine Juan Amate, CEO of Blue Line Renewable, explains a project aimed at creating the world's largest generation park in this modality on the islands. Go to download Blue Line Renewable is a recently created company located in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. It works on floating wind WhatsApp Number List energy projects, that is, those that, being on the sea, are not founded on its bottom, but rather consist of maintaining a wind turbine on a platform. This is a demand from areas with greater wind on the coasts, but which have greater depths in which it is not viable to develop anchors. The largest park in the world The company aspires to establish a wind farm in the Pozo Izquierdo area, in Gran Canaria, capable of generating 250 megawatts of power, an optimal amount to achieve the greatest efficiency and profitability.



It would probably be the largest wind generation park in the world: “This is the time to do it, both for the Canary Islands and for Spain as a whole,” says the CEO of Blue Line Renewable, Juan Amate. Canarian self-employed workers point out that without tourists they will not be able to pay the ICO credits The president of ATA Canarias, Juan Carlos Arricivita, assures that government aid is not reaching self-employed workers. Go to download The president of the Association of Self-Employed Workers of the Canary Islands (ATA Canarias), Juan Carlos Arricivita, points out that the aid that the Spanish Government has approved to combat the economic effects of covid-19 is not reaching self-employed workers. Credit lines Remember that the lines from the Official Credit Institute (ICO) are bank loans with interest, so they do not consist of an injection of liquidity for entrepreneurs, but rather debt. He points out that if tourists do not arrive and an economy is generated, they will not be able to pay those loans: “At least we have managed to widen the gap before the last minute arrived.”