Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, gave Pedro Sánchez a few days ago when he publicly warned that Spain must rethink the nuclear blackout that the PSOE has used as an ideological flag. Around the … The corner are already the closures of Almaraz I and II (Cáceres) – in 2027 and 2028 – in a decision that if the Government of Spain finally softens and transforms into extension will be only because it feels defeated by the pressure and calculates that it loses more than it earns if it maintains its efforts to close them.
Birol is aware and squeezes knowing that Brussels presses in the same way. And it is that Sanchez has been left alone in this crusade. France will open a new nuclear power plant, Great Britain and Italy are about to increase its reactors and Germany has just stopped the dismantling of what it has. All of them in reaction to the change of the geopolitical environment and the need to guarantee supply security once the Russian gas has ceased to be reliable; If it ever was.
Beyond its most radical partners, the Spanish government will also be against our borders. His plan to close Almaraz clashes with the criteria of the electrical system operator, in the hands of the socialist Beatriz Corredor, who has just noticed that the nuclear blackout involves risks for the electricity supply. Sanchez also moves against the wishes of the owner companies (Iberdrola, Endesa and Gas Natural) of the Central, of the Extremadura Government of María Guardiola, the workers of the plant and the residents of the area. The latter fear, and with great reason, be victims of the same economic and social disaster suffered by the Burgos after the closure of Garoña in 2013, also at the hands of another socialist government. Especially rebel is the people of Belvís de Monroy, who summons constant actions “so that Extremadura does not go out.” It is his way of putting foot on a decision that responds to a political cliché and lacks economic, strategic and social sense. It is demonstrated by the fact that the two most important former presidents for Sánchez, Nadia Calviño and Teresa Ribera, began to make decisions in favor of nuclear energy as soon as they left the Government of Spain. The first, from the European Investment Bank and the second, as vice president of the European Commission.
The president’s ideology is very expensive as we saw with the pandemic, the management of the postdana or the excuses so as not to raise military spending when he played. With the closure of Almaraz we play to suffer blackouts, as Red Electrico warns; Back in energy sovereignty, as Brussels fears; and lose a great opportunity for industrialization, which offers large data companies that seek a strategic location with good infrastructure and climate. It would be the portrait of Spain if we could ensure that the light will never fail. And for that, as Birol says, the nuclear blackout must be rethink.
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