Ribera confirms gas price cut plan won’t be approved this week

The Spaniards plan to set a ceiling on the price of gas, thereby lowering the price of oil. electricity bill finally this Tuesday will not be confirmed It is in the Cabinet, as Teresa Ribera, Third Vice-President of the Government and Minister for Ecological Transition, pointed out, following the agreement reached last week with European Commission Vice-President Margrethe Vestager. As he explains, they are still termination details and it will not be possible to finalize pending jobs for this Tuesday.

“We are finalizing the details. It is not easy that we have time to do it tomorrow, because today is also a public holiday in Madrid. But we are just about to finish the polishing of the details in this latest proposal. So we hope that this happens as soon as possible,” he said. Despite this delay, Ribera hopes to complete the work “as soon as possible” and present the measure to the Cabinet next week.. “Tomorrow probably won’t give us time, but definitely next week,” he added, referring to an element he said was “important” for Iberian consumers.

Vice President and Portuguese colleague José Duarte Cordeiro, signed a political agreement with Vestager last week to make the so-called “Iberian exception” a realityIt was adopted by Twenty-Seven at the Council of Europe at the end of March to allow Spain and Portugal to act on their own due to their high level of renewable energy sources and limited electricity connections to the rest of the European continent. It does not reach 3%, which turns the peninsula into an “energy island”.

As announced by both ministers, the proposal includes capping the average gas price of 50 euros per megawatt hour for the next twelve months, above the reference 30 euros. they originally wanted Madrid and Lisbon, but under the current 90 euros. The main purpose of the measure, which Spain and Portugal have been demanding for months to cope with high electricity costs, is to lower the electricity bill of consumers in the face of an energy situation aggravated by the European Union. Russia’s war in Ukraine.

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Specifically, with regard to the cutoff of gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria, announced last week by Gazprom after Gazprom’s refusal to implement the payment system required by the Kremlin, forcing companies that want to continue to buy gas to pay in rubles, Twenty-seven people this Monday He will speak in Brussels. In the opinion of the French energy minister, Barbara Pompili, Violation of contracts negotiated in the past and unacceptable. “We will continue to pay euros for contracts stipulated in euros, and dollars for contracts stipulated in dollars. We cannot accept such a maneuver that breaks already established contracts,” he warned.

Source: Informacion

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