The Association of Renewable Energy Producers (Appa) has convened a meeting for next January 12 in which it will study the "retroactive aspects" of the new royal decree of revision of premiums to photovoltaic energy and in which it will be decided if the norm is appealed before the Justice.
During the presentation of the Deloitte study on the macroeconomic impact of renewables in Spain during 2009, the president of Appa, José María González Vélez, said that the reduction to 25 years of the period of receipt of premiums "breaks the legal certainty" and "has broken the norm".
"If we put a limit of 25 years, why then can't you put only twelve years or just a while?" he asked before denouncing the lack of legal certainty and ensuring that Appa does not look this time at "the peseta", but at the importance of "respecting the rule" and guaranteeing legal certainty.
Despite criticizing this measure of the decree, which includes a cut in premiums for photovoltaics, the president of Appa showed his support for the current Secretary of State for Energy, Pedro Marín, in his candidacy for the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) for his "experience and preparation".
"Marin called us seeking Appa's support for Irena's candidacy. He gave us a speech in which he said that all the revolutions in the world were due to energy development. I told him that I loved hearing that, although I would have liked to do it two or three months before, but that he was welcome to the club," González Vélez said.
Neither the Minister of Industry, Miguel Sebastián, nor Marín himself "ignore the fundamental role of renewables", although they have had to adopt measures "more concerned about the tariff deficit or the 'lobby' of gas and others", he said, before defending the importance of Spain having a "greater role" in Irena.
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González Vélez said that in the middle of this century photovoltaic will be the renewable energy that will provide the most electricity generation and compared the stoppage caused by Industry by cutting premiums in full technological development of this energy source with the uselessness of the economic effort that is made in the education of a child if it is decided to "withdraw him from education when he is already in third of engineering".
In addition, he rejected that the set of renewables are the cause of the tariff deficit of the electricity sector, estimated at 100 million in 2010 the impact of the cut in photovoltaic premiums, regretted the "false axiom" that for each renewable megawatt another gas has to be installed and asked for a regulation on hydraulic pumping in which Red Eléctrica de España (REE) manages this activity "without benefit" for this company or "prejudice" for the owners of power plants, such as Iberdrola.
On the electricity tariff, he advocated greater liberalization and regretted that the price of electricity remains "a political burden." "If you counted what a 9% increase means, you would see that it is really nothing" within the monthly bill, especially if compared to the increase in gasoline prices, he said, before defending the quality of the electric service. "If we gave the telephone service, they would have already shot us all," he added.
(EUROPA PRESS)
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