AYUNTAMIENTO de Marbella has turned on its new electricity service station in San Pedro, designed to maintain the city’s power and protect grids from surges.

San Pedro’s new electric substation has been deemed a vital step in supporting the growth of both residential and economic development in southern Spain.

The project was commissioned after Marbella’s City Council signed an agreement in 2020 to ‘anticipate future demand.’

With the new facility, authorities claim it will ‘guarantee service for thousands of families, businesses, and future developments, in addition to strengthening Marbella’s competitiveness and growth potential.’ 

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Spain suffered a massive blackout last April that caused by multiple technical grid failures.

The overwhelming scale of the 2025 blackouts prompted the country to upgrade power grids with new stabilizing technology. 

The giant ‘stepping stone’ for electricity was built in San Pedro as part of a €9.3 million investment, with the construction of an underground 66-kilovolt and over 12 kilometres of an underground electrical network for energy distribution. 

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Marbella’s Mayor, Angeles Munoz, addressed that multiple projects are ‘currently hampered’ across the Costa del Sol due to a lack of energy capacity.

However, Munoz assured that this project will ‘guarantee the necessary supply in areas such as San Pedro Alcantara and Nueva Andalucia.’ 

Other areas included in the eventual expansion is set to impact La Campana-Guadaiza, San Pedro Industrial Park, and the JKL-Lago de las Tortugas. 

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Spain’s largest electric utility company, Endesa, is backing the project with planning and investments. 

The company has confirmed that laying the completed connections of electricity supply will ‘guarantee service for thousands of families, businesses, and future developments, in addition to strengthening Marbella’s competitiveness and growth potential.’

The substation is projected to serve over 60,o00 residents and help maintain the electrical grid to ‘reduce outages’ and offer ‘greater security’ to households and local businesses.

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