Formulario adhesión a la Comunidad Energética
Local Energy Communities
Expression of Interest Local Energy Communities
Once again IDAE (Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving) invites the Department of Sustainability, Mobility and Renewables of the Alcorcón City Council to participate in the call for expressions of interest, launched on January 22 by the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO), whose purpose is to collect proposals and initiatives linked to local energy communities to define the strategic lines of action in this area.
Regulated last June 2020 - Royal Decree Law 23/2020 - the Government finalizes its regulatory development after carrying out a prior public consultation in which our Department also participated, local energy communities are the instrument that allows citizens to be part of the energy system, going from being a consumer to being a producer of its own energy.
Local energy communities are a key element in reaching a 100% renewable electricity system and in democratizing the energy system, reducing energy costs for domestic consumers, industries and companies, and the public sector, and they will also play a relevant role in the generation of activity and employment in the municipality.
By promoting renewable energies -such as the cheapest energy generation- and self-consumption, the implementation of this type of community can contribute decisively to mitigating situations of vulnerability and energy poverty based on a model that guarantees the right of all to access energy.
Our Department of Sustainability, Mobility and Renewables is working on the preparation of an energy community project and hence our interest in participating in the development of regulations that help us to be pioneers in organizing a community that allows us to go beyond the conventional model, in in which the neighbors, the companies and the town council are limited to being clients of the supply company, to a more participatory model, based on the own production of electricity from the photovoltaic solar energy generated on our roofs and open to all .
This energy can serve the municipality for both lighting, air conditioning and vehicle recharging with a shared self-consumption model with public-private cooperation that allows the use of photovoltaic surpluses.
As a social aspect, local energy communities must serve to combat energy poverty, as a basic aspect of equity, it is essential that participation in them be accessible to all consumers, including those from low-income or vulnerable households.
In short, a more flexible, democratized model of production close to the point of consumption, generator of local economic activity and respectful of the natural environment, which allows us to contribute to achieving a more sustainable and emission-neutral country no later than 2050.
With our participation, we have collaborated so that MITECO can collect information that helps to better define the strategic lines of action in this field, considering the diversity and characteristics of the possible projects with their corresponding financing and support mechanisms, as well as to establish the technical parameters that should govern, where appropriate, the assessment or selection of actions to access said mechanisms.
