this minister council confirmed this tuesday Energy Contingency PlanA strategy designed by the Government in recent months to reduce energy consumption for the coming winter, as Brussels has requested for all Member States.
The plan will then be taken to the weekly Executive Board meeting, as sources from the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge have confirmed to EFE. approval will be delayedIt is scheduled for last Tuesday to avoid coinciding with the presentation of the 2023 General Government Budgets (PGE).
Although the plan had been in practice for several weeks, the Government initially decided to delay its approval until the Extraordinary Council of Energy Ministers to be held on 30 September. Knowing the measures jointly adopted by the Twenty-Seven and incorporating final details into the national strategy.
The government’s initial idea was to present the plan throughout September, after keeping an agenda full of meetings led by the third vice president. Theresa Rivera, with key sectoral, social, political and civil society agents.
In this sense, Ribera met with senior executives of companies such as Enagás, Redeia, Naturgy, Iberdrola and Endesa, as well as associations from the energy, electro-intensive, trade and tourism sectors, and different parliamentarians twice. groups.
He also held an individual meeting with Juan Bravo, PP’s deputy economy minister, following the main opposition party’s rejection of government-promoted energy-saving measures in recent weeks.
National and European measures
Among other things, the outline of the Spanish plan includes: technical review of outdoor lighting regulationsWhile it does not impose any limitations, it only makes recommendations regarding the use of Christmas lights by local governments.
Also, think presenting new explanatory information in electricity billIn particular, the average consumption recorded in the same zip code is an innovation that aims to encourage savings by comparing it with neighboring consumers.
Previously, the Government had approved a series of energy saving and efficiency measures for the General State Administration (AGE) and public public sector organizations in May.
Subsequently, in August, it supported its energy-saving strategy with measures that would form the basis of its contingency plan, including regulating thermostats in some buildings and closing shop windows.
At Community level, the governments of the European Union, common measures to reduce energy consumption and dependence on energy Russia, which reduced electricity consumption, capped renewable energy sources, nuclear and coal revenues, and taxed oil companies.
The reduction in electricity consumption will be determined as 10% relative to normal demand and 5% mandatory during peak hours, while the tax will be imposed on oil and gas companies at 33% of extraordinary profits. It exceeds 20% of the average recorded in the last four years.
As for the cap for marginal technologies, it is set at 180 euros per megawatt hour (MWh) – in Spain it is 67 euros, although Member States are allowed to adapt this value.