52 hectares of agricultural land will be occupied by panels and buildings over 4 metres high for the substation and for the operation and maintenance of the park.

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The park has favourable reports from the town councils and the Council of Mallorca and is expected to be declared a strategic industrial project by the Government Council at the proposal of the Council of Industry.

This marks the beginning of a new phase: large parks on agricultural land, but with proposals for “compensation” via planting and agro-commitment reports.

After the avalanche of parks, mostly of no more than 4 ha. already denounced and the request for a moratorium on photovoltaic parks on rural land and the urgent territorial and energetic planning of renewable installations in 2021, together with other entities, we are beginning to see the new trend in relation to photovoltaic parks on rural land.

We are starting to see the first witnesses of farmers being evicted from the land they used to work on because the owners prefer to rent it for a renewable energy installation https://apaema. net/agriculture/antoni-noguera-de-can-ferrerico-in-two-years-I-have-had-to-leave-a-hundred-quarters-for-sales-or-for-the-installation-of-solar-panels/ and we are also beginning to see large-scale parks with agronomic reports that raise the possibility of guaranteeing complementarity or compensation in relation to agricultural uses, which we observe with mistrust.

The problem is worsening, and not because of the effects on the landscape, which is also the case, but, above all, because of a change in land use that affects fertile land and the expulsion of farmers for industrial uses on rural land, which is what the large photovoltaic parks represent.

This week, there has been a meeting of the Landscape Observatory of the Consell de Mallorca, where a first draft of the initial document of modification 4 of the Insular Territorial Plan of Mallorca has been presented. This is the modification that aims to define the priority development areas for the implementation of renewable energy production infrastructures, as well as the regulation of the typology, dimensions and other characteristics of the facilities suitable for each area in accordance with Law 10/2019 of 22 February on climate change.

While all this is still under debate and discussion, these new investment models are beginning to appear with the approval of all the institutions involved: town councils, Consell del Mallorca, Industry, Energy and, unfortunately, Agriculture. Right now in Inca, there is this project of Fénix Energy, of 49.93 MWp and 43.94 MWn, located in polygon 11 plot 1 of Inca and in polygon 7, plot 3 of Selva (RE009/20), but also the photovoltaic park Son Vivot of 21,391.5 kWp, located in polygon 7 plots 235, 659, 690 of Inca (RE030/22).

52 hectares to be filled with panels in Son Fuster (Inca, Selva).

Projects of this size are also being processed in other municipalities, such as the SHAMSH 1 ENERGY photovoltaic park, with 49.99 MWp and 48.12 MWn, located in polygon 1 plot 1 in Consell (RE013/20). And others larger than 4ha, for example:

The photovoltaic group Son Frau of 10,583 kW and Son Nebot of 5,337 kW, located in polygon 6 plot 151 in Marratxí (RE037/22 and RE038/22).
The Llaüt photovoltaic array of 9,769.5 kW and Falucho of 9,769.5 kW, located on polygon 11 plots 92-94, 99, 100-106, 112 and 9033 in Muro (RE035/22 and RE03)
The Goleta photovoltaic array of 11,193 kW and Xalana of 11,193 kW, located in polygon 2 plot 363 of Santanyí (RE033/22 and RE034/22)
the photovoltaic group Son Cànaves I of 10 MWn, and Son Cànaves II of 10 MWn, located in polygon 7 plot 43 in Llucmajor (RE016 and 017/22)
The photovoltaic grouping Cugulutx I of 10 MWn, and Cugulutx II of 10 MWn, located in the polygon 41 plots, 119, 120 and 129 of Llucmajor (RE014 and 015/22)
Mallorca Hive photovoltaic park project, 10 MWn, located in polygon 37 plot 220 in Palma (RE012/22).
All of these were processed via a declaration of a strategic industrial project, as determined by Law 2/2020 of 15 October on urgent and extraordinary measures to boost economic activity, which modifies Law 14/2019 of 29 March, on strategic industrial projects in the Balearic Islands, which established the possibility of processing photovoltaic parks via a strategic industrial project, independently of competences in matters of territorial planning and without a declaration of general interest.

As the Selva Town Council’s own report indicates, the area of the park located in Son Fuster is twice the size of the urban land in the town of Selva and almost half the size of the town of Inca.

The GOB considers it necessary to raise this issue as a territorial alarm that affects and has a negative impact on agricultural and livestock land use. We are concerned about the acceleration of these projects by the administrations and the slowness of the territorial planning that should condition it, although nevertheless, through the declaration of a strategic industrial project, the competences in territorial and agricultural matters are disregarded.