The government has given oxygen balloons to hundreds of new renewable projects to survive. The broom ‘macro decree’ approved by the Council of Ministers this week includes: an additional six-month extension for envisaged renewable power plants to obtain permits building
A standing extension hundreds of plants are a salvation in ‘excess’ Because if they didn’t get this permission in less than a month (before July 25), the projects would have lost the much-desired electrical connection point and would have to go back to the beginning of a long bureaucratic process that took about five years. .
The deadline given at the end of the legislative period with the Bag Statutory Decree means a respite for nearly a thousand green projects that are in danger of collapse. However, the following warning is given from the renewable energy sector: precaution is just a patch to fix the upcoming problem This was the future, and in the years to come the renewable energy industry will face an even greater bottleneck to get the factories up and running on time, which the current Executive has left unsolved.
Companies wind and photovoltaic They warn that the big problem will come later. The government has now given another six months to obtain the building permit, but the deadlines for the facilities to be operational five years after they began the process have not been touched (in most cases they should be fully operational before 25 June 2025).
It will take even more time
He warns the renewables sector that there is a risk of collapse. intensification of all factory construction work in just the next two years. This is why companies promoting green projects are criticizing the Government for not giving more time to meet the remaining administrative milestones, longer deadlines for action, and demanding the approval of the next Manager who comes out of the 23J election. another extension to prevent about a thousand plants from crashing According to EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA, it is currently in the process, according to various sources in the renewable sector.
Renewables sector warns saturation of supply chains to be able to build new facilities in such a short time. You object to the same services, not only to get the solar panels or wind turbines on time, but also to find companies to do the construction work, to transport the equipment, to find the cranes to install them, to ensure that there is enough labor… to get your plants ready.
In parallel, renewable companies are warning that doubts as to whether they can meet project deadlines are cleared once and for all. makes it difficult to obtain necessary financing from banks. Small and medium-sized energy groups, which do not have the financial strength to meet the necessary investments with their own capital, are in danger of not finding the necessary financing to move forward.
A thousand facilities of 68,000 MW are suspended
Last January, projects with a total capacity of 58,000 megawatts (MW) received the mandatory environmental impact statement (DIA) to maintain their plans. It was just one of several bureaucratic stages that energy companies would have to go through before they could get the factories up and running.
After receiving the environmental declaration, the vast majority of projects in the pipeline received prior administrative permission from the central government (for projects larger than 50 MW) or autonomous communities (for smaller sized ones) before April 25. And they were now required to obtain an administrative building permit before 25 July..
Projects of 15,000 MW have already received this last permit, but the remaining 43,000 MW has suffered a decline. within a few weeks as it makes it impossible to meet the deadline due to bureaucratic congestion and in many cases changes to the project or new requests are required. In addition to these 43,000 MWs, which are about to expire, 10,000 MW facilities that have more time and then need a permit will also benefit from the six-month extension, according to sources from the Ministry of Ecological Transition.
“The government has solved a problem in the short term, but has forgotten what the real problem will be in the medium and long term.. Giving a six-month deadline to obtain construction permits is a respite, but it will be impossible for all permitted facilities to be operational within the specified timeframes,” he said.
Total, one thousand projects for a total of 68,000 MWThey need to complete the civil works in a little over two years (58,000 MW before 25 June 2025 and another 10,000 MW with a slightly longer term). “There is no doubt that another extension will be necessary. It is inevitable that the next Government will give more time to prevent hundreds of factories from collapsing,” another executive in the industry said.
urgent or not
The Ministry of Ecological Transition, commanded by Vice President Teresa Ribera, is allegedly unlikely to be included in this week’s royal decree. Extension of administrative deadlines ending in mid-2025 as they cannot be justified as an emergency measure. A statement that the renewables industry has rejected, because difficulties in securing bank financing and the need to start reaching agreements with suppliers now make it urgent to approve these extensions to obtain the final administrative permit to put the plants into operation.
The government this Wednesday launched the process of updating the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan (PNIEC), the country’s green roadmap by 2030, to trigger massive clean energy deployment and emissions reduction targets to move towards decarbonizing the economy.
The draft of the new version, more renewable energy (with much more wind energy, more photovoltaic, more green hydrogen, more electricity storage…) 56% more green energy than current planwas approved three years ago. From the 59,000 megawatts (MW) planned in the previous release over the decade – 2021 to 2030 – the Administrator is now proposing to increase this target to a total of 105,000 new MWs. In practice, the new target means that existing green capacity needs to be increased by 85,000 MW.
From the renewable energy sector, the Government – whatever the political affiliation, the current and the forthcoming government in the next general election – has been urged to meet the new PNIEC’s ambitious target of new renewable energy sources. is necessary prevent collapse of 68,000 MW of new green capacity currently in pipeline.