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Lanzarote
Fuerteventura

Gran
Canaria
(a)

Tenerife

0

11.8
11.8
12.1

12.2
5.33

4.6

10

17.1

Total (MW)

252

303
144

20

8
2.38

0

30

0.4
0.4

100

40

11.3
11.3

42
71

200

256

300

110

227
260

400

122
210

500

39.2

50

560

600
Total (MW)

714

664
553

700

45.8

Transmission Networks 2015-2020" (see the "For Further
Reading" section). It includes studies for a new interconnection between Tenerife and La Gomera, repowering the
interconnection between Fuerteventura and Lanzarote,
and installing a pumped-storage system in Gran Canaria
(Figure 3). The document also lists new conventional power
units proposed by the utility (including an entirely new
power station in Fuerteventura) and the capacity limits for
any power unit (conventional or renewable) to be located in
each insular power system.

to the grid will be in service soon. Speculative activities are
being detected, not only in the Canaries but in all Spanish
regions. The Spanish government has approved new rules
to prohibit such practices, asking for guarantees from all
promoters and invoking the assurances if new PV and wind
power plants do not reach specific milestones or connect to
the grid by a certain time.
The main electricity planning document approved
by the Spanish government for the Canary Islands and
all other Spanish regions is "Development of Electricity

La Palma

Gomera

El Hierro

(b)
Installed January 2017
Installed December 2018
Planned for 2025

Peak Demand 2018
Off-Peak Demand 2018

figure 4. The main PV and wind capacity indicators for the power systems in (a) Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Gran
Canaria, and Tenerife and (b) La Palma, Gomera, and El Hierro. (Source: REE and the Canary Islands government;
author's elaboration.)

-3,700 m

-30 m
-1,022 m

-2,272 m
-1,555 m

-2,668 m

-3,065 m

figure 5. A bathymetric map of the Canary Islands, including the minimum depth between islands. (Source: Canary
Islands government.)
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