The Ministry of Ecological Transition will launch a new round of contacts next week. more precautions energy-saving. After providing this Thursday in Congress, ratification of the first decree The government plans to be open with decisions such as closing windows at night in public buildings, shops, stores, transportation infrastructure, cultural areas and hotels, or limiting the use of air conditioning to 27 degrees in summer and 19 degrees in winter. A dialogue to continue on this path.
Teresa Ribera, third vice president, at Antena 3 this Thursday”We will continue negotiations from next week.” because “by October we must continue to make decisions that require maximum consensus”. The government should present a Contingency Plan in Brussels in September to prepare the country for the crisis. possible famine scenario gas in EU With the threat of Russia’s supply interruption. The European Commission requested it after forcing all community partners to implement the first austerity measures that should have been in effect since 1 August.
The executive is hiding behind this rush to justify the lack of agreement, but before that date, according to the Minister for Ecological Transition, it had already activated dialogue with “parliamentary groups, companies and economic sectors” that will now reopen. New measures proposed by the government may include: prolonging the closure of the lighting of some monuments or advertising posters bright.
The energy debate has been dominating the political debate these weeks, and on Thursday Head of Government Pedro Sánchez from Bogota gave wings to the gas link project with Italy amid France’s reluctance towards the Iberian MidCat project. On the first stop of his tour of Latin America through Colombia, Ecuador and Honduras, Sánchez warned that “if we see difficulties accelerating” this gas pipeline. will prefer submarine connection with Italyis a project that both countries are currently working on. “If plan A doesn’t go ahead, plan B will have to be found,” he stressed. “If this cannot be done France There is an alternative via Italy. I convey Spain’s determination to make this interconnection,” he said.
Midcat, the simplest
This Thursday Ribera impressed the idea, the construction of an underwater gas pipeline connecting Barcelona to Livorno, a “sea bridge” with a large regasification and storage facility in the Catalan capital, where large methane tankers will arrive with Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). ), to be connected later from a pipe under the sea With another hub in the Italian city to supply this country and also inject gas into the rest of Europe. This project, which also received the support of Brussels, is an option that we “must consider very seriously,” according to the vice-president, because it will transfer natural gas now, but he announced that it will happen later. “natural gas mixed with biogas” and “green hydrogen“.
But Ribera herself admits this. The “easier” alternative would be interconnection with France. through the Pyrenees. “In a country that describes itself as pro-European and at a critical moment for Europe, the logical thing is to choose the easiest that can be operational for the fall or winter of 2023-2024.” But the vice president wanted to make it clear that this is not a “bilateral dispute with France”. “Spain does not need to export gas, Spain is ready to help Europe.”