The deputy spokesperson of Compromís in Les Corts and candidate for the Senate, Isaura Navarro, and the deputy Vicent Granel have filed a complaint with the Antifraud Agency for the “mismanagement” that, in their view, the Consell is carrying out with the guarantees linked to “failed” renewable energy projects that have not progressed in the Comunitat Valenciana.
The coalition is calling for clarification as to whether the Generalitat has “systematically” chosen not to carry out these economic guarantees, despite the fact that state regulations require doing so when the project collapses due to causes attributable to the developer. Compromís has been reproaching this situation to the Consell since the beginning of the legislature, “without the Valencian executive having corrected course,” according to the party’s statement.
According to the official data of the Generalitat itself, between 2019 and the end of 2025 a total of 165 proceedings for renewable installations have “failed” in the Comunitat Valenciana due to the developer’s withdrawal, due to not meeting the technical conditions required, or due to not meeting the required administrative milestones.
The guarantees deposited for these projects add up to “hundreds of millions of euros” and, only in the province of Valencia, the figure is close to 280 million. In the documentation of the Conselleria of Environment, Infrastructures and Territory examined by Compromís, no decision for execution or seizure of guarantees appears, since all the resolutions consulted refer to cancellations or refunds. This same practice of returning the bonds in full to the developers is confirmed in a reply from the Consell to a question put to Les Corts.
From Compromís they recall that Royal Decree-Law 23/2020 establishes that the expiry of access and connection permits due to failure by the developer entails immediate execution of the guarantees, and only allows not doing so when an unfavorable environmental impact statement is due to reasons not attributable to the developer itself.
“Reasonable doubts” about refunds and unequal treatment
The complaint includes several proceedings in which “reasonable doubts” are raised about the legality of the refund ordered by the Consell, including the large-scale projects Godelletas and Morvedre, promoted by companies linked to Renovalia, with guarantees of 38 and 16 million euros, respectively.
Compromís also focuses on the “hermeticism” of the General Directorate of Energy and Mines. It criticizes that its head until July 2026, Manuel Argüelles, “systematically left unanswered” the resources submitted by entities defending the territory and social groups grouped in the UbiRacional platform, which demanded the enforcement of the guarantees, and which even denied them standing by alleging “lack of legitimate interest”.
For Granel, “the scope of the mismanagement by the PP’s Consell is so large that, conversely, the SMEs, cooperatives, and local developers who have justifiably withdrawn from photovoltaic projects have to wait for years for the Intervention of the Generalitat to authorize the return of their guarantees, despite having favorable rulings”.
Meanwhile, according to Navarro, “behind this double standard of the PP’s Consell that returns millions of euros to large promoters that have not complied and suffocates small Valencian businesses that spend years waiting for their guarantees to be released, there may be crimes of prevarication and misappropriation of public funds”.
“These guarantees exist precisely to curb speculation; if they are not enforced when the promoter fails to comply, then what is also breached is the current regulations, depriving the public treasury of money that belongs to it,” the parliamentarians have stated.
For this reason, they have asked Antifraude to require “all the files, that it check one by one whether the returns were justified and, if it finds indications of criminal liability, refer the matter to the Public Prosecutor’s Office”.