Fuerteventura Entrepreneurs Embrace Green Technologies for Sustainable Growth
Innovative startups are leveraging environmental advancements to drive profitability and sustainability on the island.
Fuerteventura’s entrepreneurial spirit is increasingly aligned with sustainable development, as a growing number of startups incorporate green technologies into their business models. Emphasizing renewable resources and eco-friendly practices, local innovators are not just seeking profit but are also committed to preserving the island’s natural beauty. This shift not only positions Fuerteventura as a forward-thinking locale but also attracts conscious consumers looking for sustainable options.
One standout in this movement is a startup focused on solar energy solutions, which has unveiled fiscal plans to decrease energy costs for local businesses. By offering competitive pricing and cutting-edge technology, they are setting a new standard for energy consumption across the island. Meanwhile, environmentally-friendly tourism ventures are designing experiences that allow visitors to engage with Fuerteventura’s unique ecosystem responsibly, appealing to the growing demographic interested in sustainable travel.
As these enterprises flourish, they are also providing employment opportunities and fostering community initiatives aimed at environmental preservation. This symbiotic relationship between business success and ecological stewardship demonstrates that sustainability can indeed lead to commercial viability in Fuerteventura. The island is on the cusp of a green revolution, as innovative startups illuminate the path toward a more sustainable economy.
Source: Gobierno de Canarias.
Nueva Canarias in Fuerteventura has denounced the “absolute insufficiency” of the security devices with which the island once again faces another summer, precisely during the months in which tens of thousands of visitors join the resident population and popular festivals, festivals, concerts and large gatherings of people multiply. The Canarian organization considers that the events that have been taking place should provoke “an immediate and much more forceful reaction from public administrations”, because certain festivals and leisure areas are registering episodes of fights, intimidations, robberies, disturbances of order, non-compliance with schedules, traffic problems and situations of lack of control that are deteriorating the tranquility with which these celebrations have traditionally been experienced. “We cannot accept as normal that a family goes to a festival in their town and has to be aware of when a fight starts, where they leave the car, whether they can return home calmly or whether there are enough agents to intervene quickly in the event of an incident. Popular festivals are part of our culture and our coexistence and we have the right to enjoy them safely,” says Nueva Canarias. The pressure on the island during August is evident. The data published for this month placed, for example, the occupancy of tourist homes in Fuerteventura at 85.5%, almost eight points above the same period in 2025, to which is added the high hotel occupancy, inter-island movement and the numerous celebrations that are concentrated during the summer. “Every summer the same photograph” For Nueva Canarias, it is especially irritating that “every summer practically the same script is repeated”: coordination meetings, institutional visits, announcements of reinforcements and photographs of political leaders only to, weeks later, verify that the resources continue not to adequately respond to the demographic and tourist reality of Fuerteventura. This summer the arrival of 35 civil guards was announced as trainees for nine months, in addition to the deployment on the island of a USECIC with another 35 troops. Nueva Canarias values any increase in human resources, but warns that Fuerteventura needs a structural, permanent solution sized according to its territory, real population and millions of visitors, not depending successively on students in internships or temporary reinforcements. “Fuerteventura does not need agents to be presented in front of the cameras every July. It needs stable, sufficient and rationally distributed staff from north to south during the twelve months of the year, in addition to extraordinary devices when the floating population and parties multiply the pressure on public services,” the training points out. Nueva Canarias describes as “institutional paripé” the reiteration of announcements that do not end up resolving a deficit that the administrations themselves have been recognizing for years. Lola García has a mandate from the Plenary Session to fulfill. The formation also remembers that the president of the Cabildo, Lola García, cannot claim ignorance or lack of political support to act. On January 31, 2025, the Cabildo itself reported that its Plenary Session had unanimously approved a motion to demand the reinforcement of the Civil Guard, National Police, Canarian Police and local police, “with special attention to areas with greater population pressure.” The initiative also contemplated holding urgent meetings with the competent administrations to address citizen security. And already in June 2024, the island plenary session had demanded a permanent presence of the Canarian Police and specific reinforcement during times of greatest influx of visitors, such as summer. “Therefore, Lola García has a very clear political mandate from the Plenary Session that she presides over. It is not enough to send letters, hold meetings or appear in a photograph. The president of the Cabildo must lead a firm demand before the Government of Spain and before the Government of the Canary Islands and give a public account of what has been achieved and what remains pending.” Nueva Canarias considers that the island president “is once again tiptoeing around one of the problems that generates the most concern when the island’s population increases extraordinarily.” General data cannot hide hot spots. NC also points out that security needs to be analyzed rigorously. The latest official data available, corresponding to the first quarter of 2026, reflected an overall decrease of 13% in criminal offenses in Fuerteventura. However, they also showed different territorial realities: Puerto del Rosario registered an increase of 12.2% in conventional crime and on the island group violent robberies in homes increased by 18.2%. Nueva Canarias warns that presenting this decline in the first quarter as a representative photograph of the security of Fuerteventura can offer a misleading image of the annual reality. January, February and March are not the months of maximum demographic, tourist and festive pressure on the island. It is between June and October when there is a sharp increase in the floating population, parties, festivals, concerts and mass gatherings multiply and the pressure on the security services increases very significantly. “It is precisely between June and October when the averages can become unbalanced and many of the hot spots that worry citizens appear with greater intensity. That is why we do not accept that only the good data from the first quarter be used to convey a feeling of normality that does not correspond to what many towns and leisure areas experience during the summer,” the organization maintains. Nueva Canarias insists that Fuerteventura’s security must be evaluated with data from the entire year and, especially, with a specific analysis of the busiest months and the devices deployed in each municipality. The formation also remembers the commotion caused just a few days ago by the death of a 23-year-old young man after suffering a stab wound in Gran Tarajal, a very serious event that occurred on August 12 that is being investigated and for which provisional detention has already been decreed for the alleged perpetrator. “Without using a tragedy to engage in partisan politics, events of this severity should serve to remind us that citizen security requires prevention, the capacity for rapid intervention and sufficient troops on the territory.” An extraordinary security plan for Fuerteventura Nueva Canarias calls for the immediate convening of an Extraordinary Island Security Table and the preparation of a specific plan that determines, with objective data, the needs of the Civil Guard, National Police, Canarian Police and local police during periods of maximum influx. The plan must contemplate special reinforcements at popular festivals and large events; surveillance of nightlife areas; real coordination between police forces; weapons, alcohol and drug controls when necessary; inspection of compliance with closing hours; night traffic and public transport devices; and the ability to quickly move units to any municipality on the island. “An island that receives millions of visitors cannot have security resources calculated as if Fuerteventura continued to have the population and activity of twenty years ago,” warns NC. The organization also considers it essential that the Government Delegation and Government of the Canary Islands make public the real number of troops permanently assigned to the island, the existing vacancies, the summer reinforcements, their territorial distribution and the existing ratio in relation to the resident population and the floating population. “We want data, numbers and results. We don’t want another meeting to take the same photo from last summer again.” Nueva Canarias concludes by warning that “Fuerteventura cannot get used to counting fights, attacks, accidents, situations of violence or victims every summer as if they were an inevitable toll of the busiest months.” “Governing also means anticipating. When we all know that during the summer tens of thousands of people arrive, the festivities increase and travel multiplies, arriving late stops being unforeseen and begins to be irresponsible. The majoreros and majoreras have the right to go out, celebrate their festivities and return home with peace of mind. We are not asking for any privileges: we are demanding security.”
Originally reported by www.lavozdefuerteventura.com, rewritten by the Fuerteventura Times AI Editorial Desk.
