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Can Picafort: flat roofs, the sea in front and a long season

Hardly anyone here has a south-facing tiled roof: what you find are the flat roofs of three- or four-storey buildings, a few metres from the sea. That changes how the panels are fitted, who decides to fit them and which materials last.

The flat roof of an apartment building

The roof belongs to all the owners, but a unanimous vote isn't needed: Spain's Horizontal Property Act (art. 17.1) lets owners approve a renewable installation, shared or for a single owner, with one third of the owners representing one third of the shares. If it is for the whole building, collective self-consumption under RD 244/2019 (art. 4 and annex I) shares the production among the neighbours using coefficients that are agreed and signed.

Panels almost flat, on ballast

On a flat roof facing the sea the panels usually go at a low tilt on concrete ballast, without drilling through the waterproofing. The frame is calculated for wind under the Spanish Building Code (CTE DB SE-AE) and the added weight is checked against the roof. And as the numbers below show, at 10° you lose winter but not the season.

The seafront, Son Bauló and Son Real

Near the water we ask for panels with the IEC 61701 salt-mist test on their datasheet and stainless fixings. On the seafront the protection easement of the Coastal Act (Ley 22/1988) also applies: 100 m from the shoreline, reduced to 20 m where the land was already urban when the Act came into force in 1988. In buildings put up with a licence before the Act that fall inside it, repair, improvement and modernisation works are allowed as long as they don't increase volume, height or floor area. And beyond Son Bauló begins the public estate of Son Real, which since 2023 has been part of the Llevant Peninsula natural park: on that edge, before designing we check what kind of land it is.

Grants

IBI, ICIO and grants in Can Picafort (Santa Margalida)

IBI (property tax): Can Picafort is part of the municipality of Santa Margalida, whose bylaw gives a rebate of between 10 % and 50 % depending on the installed capacity. In an apartment building the 50 % applies from 3 kW (in a single-family house, from 5 kW), for 3 periods, and you apply within 3 months of the installation (art. 15.6, BOIB no. 122 of 17-09-2022). The town hall has provisionally approved an amendment (BOIB no. 111 of 05-09-2026): we'll tell you which version is in force when you apply.

ICIO (construction tax): 95 % of the tax on the cost of the solar part (art. 5.3, BOIB no. 186 of 13-12-2011).

FOTOPAR 2027 opens from 26 January to 30 April 2027 (the 2026 call closed on 30 April); you must apply before the work starts and it requires domicile in the Balearic Islands: with a second home you normally won't qualify. Batteries can go through FACTOR 2026 (45 %, open until 28 February 2027), but not both grants for the same thing. A hotel or a business goes through other schemes: we'll tell you which one applies.

If it is paid for and finished in 2026, the income-tax (IRPF) deduction for self-consumption (62nd additional provision of the Income Tax Act, Ley 35/2006) is 10 % (up to €500), or 20 % (up to €1,000) if the installation is on a residential building. Income-tax (IRPF) deductions are claimed by you in your Spanish tax return, using the invoices and certificates we hand over.

We prepare the paperwork and, with your authorisation, file and justify the grant; you sign the application and the grant is paid into your bank account. The authorities decide whether it is awarded.

Every grant, with dates and BOIB source: renewable energy grants in Mallorca →

Sources: BOIB no. 83, 2 July 2026 (FACTOR 2026) · BOIB no. 171, 25 December 2025 (FOTOPAR 2027) · municipal tax bylaws published in the BOIB · PVGIS (European Commission), queried on 1 October 2026 · the Acts cited, in their consolidated text in the BOE.