The government is preparing an Emergency Plan with the measures that Spain wants to achieve the goal that it has committed with the European Union. reduce your gas consumption by 7% until next April. A set of measures to arm the continental shield in each country to guard against a possible gas supply by Russia.
The Spanish plan will design direct energy-saving measures that are a continuation of those that have been in place for weeks and are at the heart of the political struggle, but other aspects that the Executive sees as key. as accelerating the deployment of renewable energies and transforming the industry in such a way that it leaves gas and consumes less energy.
The Ministry of Ecological Transition, led by Vice President Teresa Ribera, plans to include in its energy plan a multimillion-dollar aid package to industrial companies to promote energy efficiency, replace gas use in their operations with renewable sources and trigger triggers. self-consumption use in plants.
The manager has committed an additional 250m euros for these aid programmes. Government sources already underway, promising “a few hundred million additions” if the industry sector responds and there is sufficient demand, point to EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA, a newspaper that belongs to the same group as this media and aims to use it. European Plan for Recovery, Transformation and Resilience (PRTR) funds to finance the grant package.
“If there is demand, we will be able to significantly increase this roster. The Recovery Plan designed 3 billion € increase renewable energy. There is a margin,” official sources explain. “If the programs work, we can increase these items by a few hundred million more,” they say.
running programs
Ministry of Ecological Transformation In August, it injected another 100 million into the energy efficiency program for the industry.In operation since 2019, more than 2,600 companies currently benefit directly from . With the new contribution, the aid plan has accumulated 633 million resources since its inception.
The government will also encourage assistance plan to replace gas consumption in industrial plants with thermal renewable sources, via biomass, geothermal or solar energy. Executive will inject 150 million euros and shows your willingness to increase this amount if there is demand.
in parallel andl National plan promoting self-consumptionIt has a budget of 1,320m euros that industrial companies can take advantage of but is more general rather than industry specific, and there is still availability.
The Ministries of Ecological Transition and Industry, Trade and Tourism will meet with industry representatives next week at the government’s contacts to bring together the Contingency Plan proposals with sectors and political parties affected by the energy crisis. sectors and will increase the opportunity to reduce the energy bills these aid programs represent. But the Government’s plans are to mobilize a communications campaign and direct contacts with companies by the end of the year to attract them to aid schemes and encourage their transformation.