The Ibiza City Council yesterday presented the Regenerate project, funded by the European Union and based on establishing offices to promote the rehabilitation of housing, promoting efficiency and avoiding energy poverty, two pillars in the fight against climate change.
This initiative will also serve to channel the Next Generation funds that will arrive for the rehabilitation of housing on the islands. To this end, the offices will serve to stimulate and promote this rehabilitation, “which is so necessary to combat climate change and energy pollution as a result of the rising price of energy at this time,” said the councilman of Housing for Vila, Aitor Morrás.
The Ibiza office will be inside the Cetis building and will serve as a support and information office office and to stimulate rehabilitation. It is “very close” to opening, said the councilman.
Just yesterday the councilman reported the celebration of the third meeting of the Consortium Regenerate in the Cetis building. In addition to Morrás, the councilor of Menorca and the general director of the sector in Palma, Cristina Gómez and Josep Maria Rigo were in attendance.
“We have reached a point where the islands are beginning to function with a kind of autonomy of our own”, explained the Minorcan councilor, since there is no need for administrations that “are above us” to lead projects.
Europe is committed to climate neutrality by 2050, but “it catches us at a time of crisis in the entire energy sector,” said Gómez. The councilor admitted that she always says the same thing: “The most efficient and cheapest kilowatt is the one we do not consume”.
Change in energy consumption
The strategy of this project is to stop consuming electricity and that the minimum that is consumed is with renewable energies. These have been introduced “in a big way”, according to the councilor, who stressed that with renewable energies only the essential energy should be consumed which is “that which we do not want to stop consuming after having achieved rehabilitation”.
The general director stressed the importance of the role of local entities in creating the offices with the European Union budget: “If we are not able to create these information offices to make life easier for citizens, these funds would not be used”.
The funds received by Ibiza amount to 192,840 euros and will be used to finance the staff to do the work “to promote, with the communities of owners and individuals, the rehabilitation of both buildings and homes”, explained Morrás.
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