The Wind Business Association shows his “concern” for the park repowering proposal included by the Xunta in the bill to accompany the Galician budgets for 2025, since it “proposes a paradigm shift” that causes “legal uncertainty.”
The wind industry association considers that the formula presented in the text is “erroneous and harmful” to the interests of companies, society, the economy and the image of the country, as it clashes “head-on” with the fundamental principles of the legal system existing.
In a context of wind energy processing in Galicia that the sector considers “dramatic”, it regrets that this type of changes can generate greater uncertainty for investors.
The employers’ association recalls that the bill establishes that repowering will be mandatory for those parks that have either reached the end of its useful life of design or 25 years from its start-up.
In addition, it reports that the community has 3,874 installed megawatts (183 wind farms), of which 2,007 megawatts (86 parks) are 20 years or more old and “they could be forced to be strengthened by this law,” the Association criticizes.
For this reason they believe that it is “key” to search a solution to boost repowering without it being mandated and thus avoid generating additional risks, judicialization of projects or unjustified losses to the promoters.
No impositions
The Wind Business Association believes that the “design useful life concept” is not synonymous with equipment obsolescenceloss of operability or security risks. Thus, they explain that promoters can opt for life extension or repowering, and the moment to do so depends on each project, which cannot be generalized or imposed.
The life extension It is a productive, efficient and sustainable formula, since it maintains the wind production necessary for the ‘mix’ “without endangering any aspect of safety,” he adds.
For this reason, it considers that the acceleration of repowering must be based “on implementing measures that facilitate it and reduce risk in the process”, so that in no case “repowering is carried out under mandate and even less assume the threat” of that an owner may be deprived of access to the Network if it does not activate a repowering at the time that an administration decides so.
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