The City Council asks the Government to adopt measures to avoid the problem of lack of electricity service for new urban developments in the city.

The Consistory has detected that the state electricity grid is beginning to show signs of its inability to supply the service to the new residential complexes that are being built in the municipality.

The Mayor of Estepona, José María García Urbano, has sent a letter to the Minister for Ecological Transition, Sara Aagesen, requesting measures to guarantee the electricity supply to future urban developments in the city.

The City Council has detected that the state electricity grid is beginning to show signs of its inability to supply the service to the new residential complexes that are being built in the municipality. This is affecting buyers of new homes who are unable to live in them because the electricity companies are having difficulty absorbing the growing demand.

The alderman has indicated that this energy problem is also happening in other municipalities in the province of Malaga and in large capitals such as Madrid. In fact, on this issue have been alerting nationally both associations of real estate developers as the own employer of the electricity sector.

If a solution to this problem is not addressed promptly, the Consistory considers that this situation may paralyze developments in Estepona, as has begun to occur in other cities in our country.

This limitation of electricity supply may also result in that the deadlines for the execution of urban development projects are delayed in a particularly sensitive context, marked by a serious crisis of residential supply that affects the whole country.

The mayor points out that if the central government does not act with the necessary speed and diligence, there is a risk of generating a situation that condemns the municipalities to the impossibility of growth, with serious consequences for people looking for housing, but also for companies and for the thousands of jobs that depend directly or indirectly on these developments.

In this regard, he has insisted that new projects, both public and private, aimed at providing the city with free housing and subsidized housing, so necessary to meet the current and future needs of the population, are encountering a difficulty of enormous relevance.

In the letter submitted to the Ministry of Ecological Transition, it is stated that Estepona has experienced an unprecedented demographic and economic growth, from 67,000 people registered in 2011 to almost 80,000 by the end of 2025. This has led this city to consolidate itself as one of the Spanish municipalities of greatest expansion and attraction for new residents, attracted by the high quality of life offered by Estepona and by a municipal management model based on sustainability and respect for the environment. As a direct consequence of this, the demand for housing has also grown considerably, and it is therefore urgent that the appropriate measures be taken to ensure that the Spanish electricity grid has sufficient capacity to cover the new urban developments.