This week, the purple group podem Dénia It has launched two proposals framed in the dissemination of its electoral program to make Dénia much more sustainable and ecological.
One of them focuses on taking advantage of the solar energy that the municipality receives. The idea reflects the intention to cover the more than 3.000 parking spaces public parking with solar panel pergolas, thus constituting them into energy communities, facilitating the supply to nearby neighboring communities.
The formation's mayoral candidate, Juanjo Nieves, has indicated that this measure is already underway in other places, such as France, where it is mandatory for all newly built public or private car parks. In the Balearic Islands, the regional government is also going to legislate to transform public car parks into areas for the production of clean and renewable energy. Solar pergolas fulfill a double function, on the one hand they provide shade and protect users and their vehicles from excess radiation and on the other they produce energy in a favorable area such as Dénia with more than 3.000 hours of sunshine a year.
The number 2 of the candidacy, Cristina Molinillo, proposes that these facilities promoted by the City Council become energy communities in the form of a cooperative, which provide service to nearby neighboring communities within a radius of 2 km that want to join. The purple spokesperson estimates that with the surface of installable panels, some 10.000 homes could be served, which, being blocks of flats, have little space available on their roofs for the number of neighbors to be supplied.
At the same time, Podem considers it essential that the City Council create posts for self-consumption managers in the urban planning department, who provide administrative support and advice to citizens who want to start self-consumption facilities. Although in Dénia the installation of solar panels in single-family homes has grown at a good pace as a result of the energy crisis, the same cannot be said of urbanizations and apartment blocks, which is where most of the working people who live the most she is beset by the payment of the electricity bill. "It is therefore essential that the City Council facilitate access for people
humbler to this type of energy, with the goal of a 100% self-sufficient city and zero emissions in 10 years".
Retrofit of cars to electric
Podem is also committed to subsidizing at the municipal level the retrofit for combustion vehicles that are transformed into electric vehicles. The main objective of retrofit is to give a second life to cars destined to disappear in favor of electric ones.
Converting gasoline or diesel engines to electric ones costs about 8.000 euros per vehicle, much more affordable for most workers than a new electric car. Of those 8.000 euros, the City Council could subsidize 50% as long as the transformation of the engine was carried out in local workshops. In this way, small mechanical workshops in the area with a significant workload would also benefit. The circular economy is also encouraged and the scrap rate is significantly reduced.
Furthermore, the retrofit it has an ecological impact that is 60% less than the manufacture of a new electric car, since, in the end, it also means recycling or reusing the vehicles and makes it easier for the transition to a zero-emission electric vehicle fleet to be carried out more quickly and at a lower cost .
Finally a good idea of this party. It is seen that when they talk about something other than politics they can also be intelligent.
What I do not share is that exclusive benefits are given only to some communities close to the possible platforms. Denia belongs to everyone and not every piece belongs to the nearby neighbors.
That idea is good, but it needs to be polished.
It may be the beginning of a total reconversion in Dénia since if covered and monitored parking areas were enabled and with solar energy production and vehicle chargers, more streets in the center could be left in a blue zone to benefit local commerce so that the residents of the center could park their cars at noon and at night, and even request some authorization to overlap some blue zone hours if they use the car daily and those who do not use the car during the week have a good place to park it, thus leaving many free parking spaces for people who come to Dénia to shop or do business and who currently stay in the Ondara shopping center for that reason.
Gentlemen from Podemos, I do not have a driving license. Finance me for an efficient washing machine, yes; a refrigerator and if it arrives, also for a microwave
Rent an AIRBNB are equipped with everything and more.
And to all that, where do we put the tourist cars? Or do they all come on a skateboard? All these measures in a society without mass tourism could still be carried out but with the avalanche of tourist traffic that we receive they are unfeasible.