The Cabildo de Tenerife and the Güimar City Council agree that the southern municipality is the best option to locate the hydroelectric power station that Tenerife needs. The mayor of Los Silos showed in Hoy por Hoy Tenerife willing to renounce the hydroelectric power station in favor of Güimar, “If everyone agrees and the technicians agree and we all agree, there would be no problem because we have it is to give solvency to the project, not to hinder the project“, said Macarena Fuentes in the SER.
Renewable sources can be truly significant in the consumption of the island of Tenerife, but for this we need to be able to store the energy they produce. The pumping station proposed by Red Eléctrica de España for Tenerife is a solution for that. In a nutshell, a hydroelectric plant allows us to create an artificial waterfall and reuse the clean energy we obtain from renewable sources.
When there is energy demand, a waterfall allows us to artificially create the energy we need. However, in Tenerife there are no natural waterfalls. Over the years (because we have been talking about this project for several decades) several locations have been considered where there are also sufficient ground unevenness and nearby population centers that demand quantity of energy. The highlands of Chasna, the Orotava valley, even the campitos dam connecting with the desalination plant of the fishing basin.
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However There are two preferred locations, the Güímar holes and those of Isla Baja, the Erjos ravine. Both present a blunt unevenness of terrain. In Güímar, the aggregate quarries caused a clearing of the land, which ironically puts the southern municipality in an advantageous position. It would be a good way to repair great environmental damage with something positive for the environment.
The only downside that it has ever had is that it is a porous soil and it would require a very careful waterproofing work on the tanks. But it is also a location that has another fundamental advantage. It is very close to a high voltage line that connects the south with the north, one of the energy highways in Tenerife. It would only be necessary to make a substation to which the hydroelectric power plant would be connected and from there to overturn the transmission line.
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