The Generalitat de Catalunya has required the Rubí City Council to expand the areas where photovoltaic plants and batteries can be installed, thus modifying the initial proposal of the municipal Urban Planning General Plan (PGO). This new version, to be debated in the October Plenary, aims to comply with the requirements of the Catalan Territorial Urban Planning Commission, even though the council's initial objective was to protect the municipality's non-urbanizable land to the maximum extent possible.
The City Council's original proposal, initially approved in June 2025, was more restrictive to prevent the occupation of natural and agricultural land. However, the Generalitat has conditioned the final approval to several modifications, such as allowing photovoltaic plants on optimal preventive protection land, authorizing battery installations on non-urbanizable land near electrical substations, and eliminating the general occupation limit in industrial urban land.
The municipal government considers that not approving this modification now would expose the territory to a greater uncontrolled proliferation of these infrastructures, given the growing pressure from interested companies. The new regulation seeks to establish clear criteria and limit dispersion, prioritizing industrial rooftops and already transformed areas.
The Generalitat also requires that battery installations can be admitted on non-urbanizable land near electrical substations. The City Council proposes concentrating these infrastructures around existing electrical facilities to leverage existing connections and limit the need for new lines. Nevertheless, urban planning admission does not imply automatic authorization, and projects must comply with all applicable regulations.
