Optimism. Teresa Ribera, the government’s third vice president and Minister of Ecological Transition, thinks Spain is in “good conditions to confront it successfully” decarbonizing your industry and one day achieving “net zero emissions” in the industry.
Ribera made these remarks during the opening of the Funseam energy symposium in Barcelona, which will be closed this afternoon by Industry Minister Jordi Hereu. The minister mentioned the future battery cell factory for VW electric vehicles in Sagunto (València), green hydrogen projects in Algeciras or capital goods factories for the wind industry in Galicia as examples of this adaptation of the country to the energy transition.
Before his intervention, Ribera met with industry representatives such as the president of Naturgy. Francisco Reynes; or the president of Exolum, Rosa García, among others. According to information obtained by sources familiar with the content of the meeting, the issue of taxes imposed on energy companies, which the industry opposes, was ignored in this meeting. Also present at the meeting were PSC leader Salvador Illa, ‘former president’ José Montilla and Criteria Caixa vice president Juan José López Burniol.
The minister assumed that not all industrial processes were electrified but advocated exploiting the potential. hydrogen use Shifting future transition energies towards decarbonization such as natural gas. He also commented that although it was a very significant decrease. fossil fuelsthere is still one “strong addiction” of these in industrial tissue.
Ribera stepped forward “Investor appetite” aroused by Spain on energy issueswhat it will create in recent years and in the future. In this context, he said 2023 is the hottest year on record and defended the need to anticipate the country’s need to resist “the effects of climate change.”
Likewise, he assured that the European Union (EU) must maintain the competitiveness of its sector and make decarbonization a policy. “competitive advantage”and warned that Europe had “a lot” at stake in this debate.
In the presence of the Minister, Antoni LlardenEnagás and Funseam’s president emphasized that the energy transition is “an opportunity for reindustrialization” and that decarbonization is a key factor of competitiveness and the necessary cooperation between the public and private sectors.