AFIE: Functional adaptation of the electrical infrastructure of PLOCAN

For the PLOCAN Consortium to be able to continue developing the activities foreseen in its constitution, and to be able to continue providing services to the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands and to society as a whole, it is necessary for the entity to have the resources to undertake the following new investments in the entity’s own infrastructures:

• SUPPLY AND INSTALLATION OF A THIRD UNDERWATER ELECTRICAL AND COMMUNICATIONS CABLE FOR THE EXPANSION OF IECOM: The installation of a third cable is required to cover the demand from users with offshore electricity generation prototypes of the PLOCAN test bed and thus be able to complete the technical capacity of the 15 megawatts authorised for PLOCAN. The Canary Islands are facing enormous opportunities in the field of offshore energy. PLOCAN has around 50 European projects and dozens of users in both the public and private sectors, who are waiting to access our sea to be able to test their new offshore technologies, producing energy and transferring it through the necessary electrical infrastructures.
• ADAPTATION OF ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURES: Due to the obsolescence of the facilities where PLOCAN’s onshore headquarters are located, it is necessary to execute a project for the reformation of the wiring, fire protection and air conditioning installations of PLOCAN’s onshore headquarters, in order to allow access to both public and private users, enabling the development of their R+D+i projects.