Generalitat chief Pere Aragonès said this Monday that the Government will hold a meeting on 4 October. public energy company
He explained this in his statements to the press. Climate Week NYC with the Minister for Climate Action, Food and the Rural Agenda in New York (United States), Teresa Jordan, The government announced in a statement.
The new company will be based on renewable energies and will “serve to reuse” The entire energy-generating potential of Generalitat buildings”Anticipating that this measure will contribute to improving the energy efficiency of the Government’s public services, Aragonès added.
Jordà, Government’s “to put energy at the service of the common good” and that Catalonia will have a publicly traded energy company for the first time, which in his view will lead to an improvement in the energy market.
The energy company will be formed as a single-member, public limited company with the direct participation of Generalitat and “It will act as its own agent to develop the Catalan energy market”The government underlined.
Improvement will focus in particular on the provision of the Generalitat itself and its organs, because “will ensure that energy consumption ceases to be an expense It starts to be a saving investment in the short and medium term and becomes a source of income when the investment is amortized.”
“The democratization of energy”
The Generalitat also wants to use it. “To promote the democratization of energy with regional cohesion, with investment capacity in electricity generation”, in electric car charging services and in energy supply to the administration itself.
Public energy will encourage Generalitat’s self-consumption and distributed generation projects in all public buildings and will have an energy supply policy that allows the purchase of renewable energy. bilateral agreements with local producers.
The government has stated that this will happen.”An important tool for Catalonia’s energy transition”With a target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030.