Granadilla’s getting a couple more wind farms.
Not exactly headline-grabbing stuff… but it matters more than people think.
Two new projects, El Vallito and Tarajales, are moving forward, with over 23 megawatts of power heading into the grid. That’s not small. It’s part of the ongoing push to get Tenerife a bit less reliant on the usual fossil fuel setup… which, let’s be honest, has been dragging on for years.
The investment’s north of €34 million, so someone’s clearly taking it seriously.
El Vallito will sit up near Chimiche, just off the TF-1. Five turbines going in there, and they’re not the little ones you see dotted about. These are proper machines… 114 metre rotor diameter and 80 metres high.
You’ll see them.
Whether you like that or not is another matter.
There’s also all the infrastructure that comes with it… underground cabling, connections to substations, the usual bits most people never think about when they flick a switch at home.
Everything feeds into the Granadilla substation, then on to Abona, which is basically the backbone of power distribution in the south.
So what does it actually mean?
Well… more renewable energy on the island, which is needed. No question there. Tenerife’s been behind the curve for a while when it comes to this sort of thing.
But at the same time, these projects always split opinion.
Some people see progress. Others see more turbines on the landscape and wonder where it stops.
If you’re living nearby, you’ll definitely have an opinion.
If you’re not… you’ll probably just enjoy the fact your air con works in August without thinking twice about where the power’s coming from.
That’s usually how it goes.
Either way, this isn’t the last of it. There’s more of these planned, and Granadilla seems to be one of the go-to spots.
Plenty of wind… plenty of space… fewer complaints than building them somewhere more built up.
Funny that.