Solar panel application surge

NEARLY 600 households and companies in the Balearic Is‐lands have applied to con‐nect to solar energy supplies so far this year.

The Balearic Energy Insti‐tute (IBE) has received 572 applications for the cut‐price energy connections be ‐tween January and April, with towns such as Arta, Es‐porles and Algaida in Mal‐lorca breaking all expecta‐tions and announcing the creation of new public solar panel installations to deal with the surge in demand.

The vast majority of re ‐ quests, 548, were made by homeowners, with the re‐maining 24 relating to busi‐nesses.

Artaà registered 66 appli‐cations from homeowners and five from companies to be connected to the existing installations at Pou de sa Lluna school and Es Cargol sports centre, with the IBE announcing the construc ‐ tion of new solar panel in‐stallations at the car park on the Avenida Costa and Colò‐nia de Sant Pere sports cen‐tre.

In Algaida 44 applications were received for the facili‐ties at the municipal Sala Po‐livalente with the town hall suggesting four new sites for solar panels, and in Esporles 45 requests from house ‐holds were processed to join up to the Centre de Forma‐ció solar panel park, with the IBE currently drawing up plans to create a new one at Gabriel Comas school.

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MALLORCA is hosting the Spain Tourism Summit 2023 this week to boost visitors from the US and Canada.