Marijuana plantations in Spain have an unlawful electrical energy consumption of two,200 GWh per 12 months, equal to that of a metropolis like Seville in a single 12 months, Endesa defined in a press release on Wednesday. Each marijuana plantation consumes, on common, the identical as 80 properties. This is so as a result of the lighting and air flow programs used to speed up plant development require electrical energy 24 hours a day and acquire it by way of unlawful hookups.
The firm has detected 190,000 instances {of electrical} fraud within the final three years and in 2022 there have been 55,167 instances, a mean of 150 per day, “with a rising weight of instances associated to marijuana plantations.”
You is not going to consider how a lot a marijuana plantation consumes.
Illegal hookups related to marijuana devour electrical energy equal to the consumption of a metropolis like Seville in a 12 months!👇
— endesa (@Endesa) March 29, 2023
Over the previous 12 months Endesa dismantled, in collaboration with the safety forces, round 1,800 frauds to feed indoor plantations, which is a mean of 5 each day.
“These figures present the dimension of an unlawful observe that places the safety of residents at critical threat, causes the deterioration of the standard of provide of the neighbors and makes the invoice dearer for all customers,” says José Manuel Revuelta, basic director of Redes of Endesa.
According to the corporate, the variety of frauds linked to plantations accounted for 3.2% of the whole managed final 12 months, however they accounted for 28% of the defrauded vitality, with a year-on-year improve of seven.8%, which exhibits the excessive consumption of those amenities and the distortion they generate within the electrical distribution community of the areas the place they’re positioned.
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