The Junta de Andalucía is looking for a hydroelectric company to turn the Embalse de Rules into a power-producing dam.

The Regional Board of the Environment has begun the paperwork for putting this project up for bidding.

The Rules and Béznar reservoirs between them provide 85% of the water resources for the Costa Granadina and the town and villages in the valley in which they lay.

But the reservoirs not only store water, and in the case of Béznar, produce ‘green electricity’, and they also provide protection against flash floods.

The Rules Reservoir has the capacity to hold 113.3 cubic hectometres of water which will one day – when the pipes are finally laid – provide the water needs for the Costa Tropical with its 300,000 inhabitants.

The company that takes on the hydro-plant, who will enjoy a 50-year lease, will have to present a project covering the maximum power output. The said company will have to run with the costs of the installation, production and transportation of the electricity produced; i.e., the power grid.

The 30 day limit for project submission is already ‘ticking.’

(News: Rio Guadalfeo Valley, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)