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Graziosa

Current status, energy mix, organizations, suppliers, equipment, controls, reported specifications, and project updates—with source-level citations.

CoverageDetailed public record
Named organizations7
System facts16
Sources reviewed7
Evidence reviewed2026-07-20

The recovered Graziosa record is conflated. Its coordinates and Spain/Canary-Islands location identify La Graciosa beside Lanzarote, but its legacy 4.5 MW wind, 1 MW solar, and multi-megawatt battery specifications belong to the unrelated Graciólica plant on Graciosa in the Portuguese Azores. Spanish La Graciosa instead remains connected to Lanzarote by subsea electricity and water links. It has a distributed 60.1 kWp residential solar-and-storage demonstration from the EU REACT project and is planning broader community microgrids and solar desalination through 2028; it does not have the Portuguese utility-scale hybrid plant.

Research status
Identity corrected to La Graciosa, Canary Islands, Spain. The island remains grid-connected and largely dependent on fossil-derived energy delivered from Lanzarote. REACT installed a distributed residential pilot across 22 dwellings, while the El Sol de La Graciosa energy community and the 2025-2028 ICONIC program are developing additional PV, BESS, internal-microgrid, water, and mobility pilots. No source reviewed supports treating the legacy Azores equipment as installed in Spain.
Historical classification
Island
Reported capacity
See component specifications
Coordinates
29.25536, -13.50321
Evidence note: “Every company” cannot be proven from public material alone. This page lists every organization found in the recovered record and reviewed sources, preserves unknown roles, and explicitly marks undisclosed controller or equipment details.
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Project delivery

Who was involved in Graziosa?

7 publicly identified organizations. Where a recovered source named a participant without explaining its work, the role remains explicitly unspecified.

Organization

El Sol de La Graciosa Comunidad Energética

Resident-led energy community formed after the REACT pilot and now coordinating collective self-consumption and broader island transition projects. [5][2]

Organization

European Commission Clean Energy for EU Islands Secretariat

Provides transition-assistance and publishes the island's current energy/dependency profile under the 30 for 2030 initiative. [2]

Organization

Government of the Canary Islands, Cabildo de Lanzarote, and Ayuntamiento de Teguise

Regional and local public partners in the island's energy-transition team and current community projects. [2][5]

Organization

Leclanche

Publicly named participant; role not specified in the recovered record [1]

Organization

R2M Solution and ICONIC consortium

Lead and consortium for the May 2025-May 2028 project developing renewable-energy, BESS/internal-microgrid, water, mobility, and community pilots. [5]

Organization

REACT consortium

EU Horizon 2020 consortium that deployed the household PV, battery, and smart-control pilot on La Graciosa. [3][4]

Organization

Younicos

Publicly named participant; role not specified in the recovered record [1]

System evidence

Energy mix, capacity, and specifications

Values can describe different project phases, generation sources, storage systems, or other components. Source citations are attached to each figure so discrepancies remain visible.

KW Solar
1000 [1]
KW Wind
4500 [1]
REACT new solar PV
60.1 kWp distributed across 22 residential systems ranging from 1.1 to 7.8 kWp [3][4]
Other PV documented by REACT
Two existing systems totaling 34.1 kWp (4.5 kWp and 29.6 kWp), separate from the new 60.1 kWp pilot [4]
REACT distributed storage
The project-results slide lists 11 LFP systems at 6.4 kWh each but prints a conflicting 110.8 kWh total; one 3 kWh NMC system; four systems labeled 'PLH-C' totaling 22.9 kWh (the chemistry acronym is not explained); one 7.7 kWh sodium-nickel-chloride unit; and three flooded/VRLA lead-acid systems totaling 18.8 kWh [4]
Island energy dependency
Electricity and drinking water are supplied from Lanzarote through underwater links; the EU island profile estimates approximately 90% of the supplied energy is fossil-derived [2]
Legacy utility-scale ratings
Not applicable to Spanish La Graciosa. The inherited 4.5 MW wind, 1 MW PV, and multi-megawatt battery figures are the Portuguese Azores Graciólica plant, not equipment at these coordinates. [2][7]

Controls and hardware

Equipment and controller details

Manufacturer and model are shown only when a source names them. Generic descriptions are not converted into guessed product assignments.

01

Distributed household PV and storage

Model not publicly disclosed

REACT deployed rooftop PV, multiple storage technologies, and smart energy controls at 22 preselected dwellings. The project-level results contain one internally inconsistent LFP total and an unexplained 'PLH-C' label, and do not provide a complete household-by-household manufacturer/model inventory. [3][4]

02

Submarine interconnection

Model not publicly disclosed

The island's main electricity supply remains the subsea cable from Lanzarote; the local energy community explicitly plans to retain that connection for security and emergency backup while increasing local self-consumption. [2][6]

03

ICONIC microgrid and water pilot

Model not publicly disclosed

The current 2025-2028 work proposes PV, BESS, software/AI-managed internal microgrids, and a tailored solar-desalination pilot. These are under development and are not added to installed capacity. [5]

Technical record

Architecture, performance, and project updates

Concise technical facts, milestones, operating results, and later developments. Dated notes distinguish historical design claims from current evidence.

  • Generation

    Wind, storage [1]

  • Record-identity correction

    The app's latitude/longitude and Spain label point to La Graciosa in the Canary Islands. The legacy organizations and ratings point instead to Graciosa in the Azores, roughly 2,000 km away. This enrichment keeps the Spanish identity and removes the Portuguese plant from its installed equipment. [2][7]

  • REACT architecture

    The REACT pilot is a set of coordinated behind-the-meter household resources connected to the local grid, not a single island-forming utility plant. Its role is self-consumption, demand/storage coordination, user participation, and validation of community-energy controls. [3][4]

  • Current island energy mix

    The EU island profile says some homes have self-consumption PV but that other buildings and infrastructure depend on Lanzarote; about 90% of supplied energy is associated with fossil combustion. No current island-wide hourly generation or renewable-share dataset was located. [2]

  • Transition roadmap

    The community's stated path is decentralized rooftop and public-infrastructure PV, storage, renewable-powered desalination and wastewater treatment, and continued subsea-cable backup. These are targets for greater independence before 2030, not an as-built 100% renewable system. [6][5]

  • Evidence boundary

    No reviewed source supports wind turbines, a 1 MW central solar farm, or a 2.6-3.2 MWh utility battery on Spanish La Graciosa. The capacity of any post-REACT PV/BESS installed under ICONIC had not been published by the research date. [2][4][5]

Provenance

7 sources

Primary owner, government, university, supplier, and engineering sources are preferred. Archived references preserve claims whose original pages moved or disappeared.

  1. [1]
    Recovered Microgrid Projects record

    Internet Archive · Archived source · captured 2020-07-06

  2. [2]
    La Graciosa

    European Commission Clean Energy for EU Islands Secretariat · Primary source

  3. [3]
    REACT Pilots and Follower Islands

    REACT Horizon 2020 Consortium · Primary source

  4. [4]
  5. [5]
    Hoja de Ruta

    El Sol de La Graciosa Comunidad Energética · Primary source

  6. [6]
    Objetivos medioambientales

    El Sol de La Graciosa Comunidad Energética · Primary source

  7. [7]
    Graciosa case study

    Leclanché · Primary source

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