He future of nuclear energy in Spain has landed on Tuesday almost simultaneously in the plenary sessions Congress and of Senate. On the one hand, in the lower house the PP negotiates with Vox and predictably with Junts support for a proposition not law that, if approved in the vote planned this Thursday, it will urge the government to “Extend the useful life of existing nuclear centrals. “Almost at the same time, the third vice president and minister for the ecological transition, Sara Aagesen, He kept the Government’s commitment to generation in the upper house renewablehe denied that he has “No plot” with nuclear energy, that “neither we open nor closed nuclear centrals” and assured that, “to date”, the owners -iberly, Endesa and Naturgy- “They have not shown us any interest for expanding the useful life. “
The PP has continued in Congress with the strategy that you plan to follow throughout the Legislature of opposition to the nuclear closing calendar that the electricity and the Ministry agreed – through Enresa – and its deputy Guillermo Mariscal has defended a non -law proposition (NLP) for extend the life of centrals – that the Spanish law stipulates in 40 years and will coincide approximately with the planned date of closing for each of them- and that asks the government to “Facilitate the economic sustainability of facilities nuclear “, since the association that defends its interests, Nuclear forumdenounces an “suffocation” through municipal, autonomic and state taxes and the rise of the ‘enresa rate’ that makes its continuity unfeasible. Ecological transition figure at 20,000 million the amount that, if they do not pay them in taxes and various rates, should be reversed in citizens.
“Close the plants It is a monumental mistake, An energy suicide, a decision based on ideology and not rationality, “said Mariscal, who added that” we are still in time that [el Gobierno] rectify. ” President Feijóo will change it“He said.
The PP initiative will vote this Thursday and the popular ones at the moment studied on Tuesday accept the Vox amendments that, although it sees “common sense”, the NLP, proposes to “reinforce it” adding that nuclear energy is recognized as “Mix essential source energetic”, “Cancel the closing calendar and the dismantling of the centrals “and” modify the legislation to End the fiscal taxes They are ending “with this energy source. Vox even wants to” create new nuclear reactors, “according to his deputy Ricardo Chamorro.
Although he has not revealed the meaning of his vote, Juns has not been against the existing nuclear calendar, because 50% of electricity consumption in Catalonia depends on the centrals in his territory – he said 1 and 2 and Valdellós – and because There is no alternative that ensures “100%” that without them the electricity supply will be guaranteed.
“One in two Catalans consumes electricity of nuclear origin“said the independence deputy Pilar Calvowhich has pointed out to the “harsh reality” that renewables does not respond at all to demand. “We don’t like it, but ¿Can we have so many years. Guarantees of reaching 100% to do without nuclear? “has been asked, suspending or not supporting the NLP of the PP this Thursday. In the event that he will vote in favor, the petition to the Government would go ahead to extend the useful life of the centrals that otherwise begin a closing path that will end in 2035.
On the contrary, PSOE, add, Podemos or BNG have announced the vote against, as they will also do ERC and PNV that, however, they have had more understanding messages towards nuclear energy. “We are not going to deny that The debate of nuclear energy has resurfaced “ In the EU, the Basque deputy has granted Sagastizabal iodia“But in the state [español] They want to raise a debate that is overcome. “” The closure of the nuclear will be done, but It must be done wellIt is the difference between you and us, “said the Catalan Republican Jordi Salvador to the PP.
“There is no government plot”
Regardless of Thursday the PP achieves the support of Vox and Junts to its NLP, Aagesen made it clear in the Senate almost at the same time as the government Does not plan to change nuclear closure planning And he has assured that “for the moment” the owners have not asked. On the contrary, he has insisted that the Government’s commitment to clean, safe and affordable energy is energy renewable. “If you ask me what is the most efficient energy and the one that saves the most To the Spaniards, they are renewable energies, “he said on a recent study by the Embes consultancy that figure in 59,000 million savings Throughout the EU in 2024 for the use of renewables, of which 14,000 originated in Spain.
“The government has no plot Against any energy but especially of nuclear, “he said in response to a Vox interpellation.”Neither we open nor close nuclear centrals; Neither we open or close photovoltaic or wind centrals. It is the companies of this country that decide to build them, operate them, maintain them or not to maintain them. “Aagesen has ignored that they would be willing to continue whether they were lightened by the tax burden by stating that” they have not shown us any interest in extending the useful life of the centrals “.
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