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La compañía va a desmantelar más de 90 apoyos, va a eliminar 5,5 kilómetros de líneas aéreas y va a construir una vía ciclo peatonal de siete kilómetros

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Presentación del Plan Albufera de la Generalitat Valenciana al aire libre, con público sentado en sillas de madera, un ponente en el atril y pantalla con información del plan junto a una caseta blanca.

Guillermo Raga, i-DE's director for the Eastern Region, presents the Albufera plan

i-DE, Iberdrola España’s distribution company, and the Valencian Regional Government have presented the Albufera Plan, a project that will enable the dismantling of more than 90 pylons and the removal of 5.5 kilometres of overhead power lines crossing the Albufera Natural Park, while also creating a seven-kilometre cycle and footpath.

Through i-DE, Iberdrola España will invest approximately €6 million in the initiative to strengthen the resilience of the electricity network to severe weather events such as the cold drop, reduce environmental and landscape impacts by undergrounding lines where feasible, and improve the quality and reliability of electricity supply in the municipalities south of Valencia.

The presentation was attended by Guillermo Raga, Director of i-DE in the Eastern Region, together with the Valencian Regional Government’s First Vice-President and Regional Minister for Housing, Employment, Youth and Equality, Susana Camarero, and the Third Vice-President and Regional Minister for the Environment, Infrastructure, Territory and Recovery, Vicente Martínez Mus.

Also present were Iberdrola España’s Institutional Representative in the Valencian Community, Ibán Molina; the Commissioner for Recovery following the cold drop, Raúl Mérida; and the Regional Secretary for the Environment and Territory, Sabina Goretti, among other representatives.

The Albufera Plan comprises three main actions and is expected to be completed within approximately two years. The first phase involves partially undergrounding the existing 66-kilovolt (kV) line, enabling the removal of three pylons and one kilometre of overhead line that currently crosses a forested area.

The second phase includes the construction of two new underground medium-voltage circuits to create a loop around the El Perellonet area. This will allow more than three kilometres of overhead line and around 70 pylons to be dismantled and replaced with underground infrastructure, while local transformer substations will also be automated.

The final phase involves the installation of three new medium-voltage lines linking the El Saler substation with El Palmar and El Perellonet. This work will enable the removal of approximately 30 additional pylons and more than two kilometres of overhead lines.

The project is being delivered through a public-private partnership and benefits from the streamlined administrative procedures introduced by the Valencian Regional Government following the cold drop, as well as broader measures aimed at simplifying permitting processes and accelerating recovery efforts.

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