Sara Aagesen is emerging as Ribera’s replacement in the Ministry and the Vice Presidency

The current Secretary of State for Energy, Sara Aagesen, is running as successor to the third vice president of the Government and Minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera. As advanced The Vanguard, Moncloa sources have assured that Aagesen will be the one who holds the position of minister and third vice president. From Ecological Transition they send the decision to the Executive, although they do not deny the appointment.

Ribera’s replacement comes after the approval by the European Parliament of the minister’s appointment as vice president of the European Commission, after the European People’s Party gave its votes to the Spanish candidacy. Ribera will hold the position of vice president of Just, Clean and Competitive Transition and in charge of the powerful European Competition portfolio.

With these wicks, the current Secretary of State for Energy, after a constant coming and going of potential candidates, will be the one who stays with the portfolio in charge of the country’s energy and environmental policy.

Aagesen’s appointment was one of the favorites within the energy sector, which was seeking continuity within the portfolio. In this sense, the Secretary of State for Energy has already spent more than four years leading one of the most complicated departments for any Government. This milestone means, in practice, breaking a record in the call electric chair of the Executive, given its high level of rotation. Aagesen already surpasses the figure of Álvaro Nadal, who was in the position between December 28, 2012 and November 11, 2016, that is, a total of 1,414 days.

However, Aagesen has also had to deal with one of the most important energy crises in the last 50 years. The head of the energy area had to face the vertical price escalation of prices after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, while at the same time carrying out numerous reforms and strategies that have led her to gain a reputation as a dialogue-maker, a characteristic that is not always abundant in this position.

From 2002 to 2018, Aagesen developed his professional career in the Office of Climate Change. He has participated in the design and development of innovative instruments for the mitigation of climate change in Spain, the roadmap for diffuse sectors 2020 and the design and implementation of the First National Allocation Plan.

In 2018 was named advisor to the cabinet of the Ministry for the Ecological Transitionwhere he was responsible for the direction, coordination and definition of the draft of the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan 2021-2030 and the Long-Term Strategy 2050.

And in 2020 she was appointed Secretary of State for Energy from where she has led the review of the PNIEC and important modifications such as the change to the PVPC, which Nadal designed. In recognition of his international work, he received the Cross of the Civil Order of Environmental Merit in 2013.

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