The director of Moeve in the Canary Islands, Carlos Giner Monleón, has indicated that the company is already prepared to integrate biofuels into the electricity generation of the archipelago, with the aim that "all the emissions that are being produced can be eradicated."
During his participation in the informative forum of Europa Press "Canarias hacia el futuro," held this Tuesday in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Giner Monleón referred to the role that the "Andalusian Valley of green hydrogen" will play, recalling that the company must first decarbonize its own processes in order to advance in the production of green energies such as biofuels.
In this regard, he explained that "in that complex we are building in Huelva to produce those biofuels, which will be the largest complex in southern Europe, we are in a position to incorporate those biofuels into electricity generation here in the Canary Islands, so that all the emissions that are being produced can be eradicated."
However, he pointed out that all this deployment will depend "to the extent that the willingness of the administrations -- in this case, especially, MITECO, which has the capacity to modify -- in this case, a royal decree that allows the correction of the burning of those fuels to shift from fossil to a renewable fuel."
He also linked this energy transformation with the tourism positioning of the islands, emphasizing that "making the Canary Islands a tourist destination with the appeal that a decarbonized or in the process of decarbonization territory can represent" would provide significant added value to the archipelago, although he acknowledged that it is a gradual process and that "it is not going to happen in five minutes."
Furthermore, he stated that for this transition to be viable, "factors such as the production being acquired at the necessary scale" must accompany it so that the cost of those biofuels "is reduced and the unit cost is much lower."
Finally, he recalled that in the study presented to the regional Ministry of Ecological Transition and which, as he specified, "he is aware" was shown in the bilateral meeting with MITECO, "the ambition that the Canary Islands may have regarding tons of CO2" to be emitted "is directly related to the incorporation of those biofuels" in substitution of fossil fuels.