The Renewable Energy Foundation, which was born as an initiative of private citizens to defend these technologies, asks that the hydrocarbons sector assume part of the cost to meet the community objectives and advocates implementing a green tax on fuels whose amount should be around "one or two cents" per liter, said one of its vice presidents, Fernando Ferrando, at a press conference.
Ferrando, who is a director of Endesa but who intervened in a personal capacity, recalled that in Spain fuels are cheaper than in the EU and that there is an "important difference" in prices in this aspect, and considered that "bringing the differential closer by one or two cents (per liter) so that there is a co-responsibility with renewables will be enough to develop the entire sector".
For Ferrando, this measure, which is openly opposed by oil groups, will mean "more pressure on those who pollute" and will provide "price signals about the real costs of each technology." "Everyone will have to shoulder their shoulders and pay for the one who pollutes the most," he added.
The Foundation's claim, he said, is based on the fact that "the entire energy sector has to support" the effort to meet community objectives and that "there is room for some vectors to endure what they have to endure" to achieve a "decarbonized" society.
PHOTOVOLTAIC FRAUD.
For his part, the president of the photovoltaic section of Appa, Javier García Breva, who in turn chairs the new Foundation in a personal capacity, recommended a "cautious" approach to the accusations of a counselor of the National Energy Commission (CNE), Luis Albentosa, about a possible fraud in the photovoltaic sector related to the repowering of plants, whose value could amount to 1,700 million in two years.
García Breva recalled the "embarrassment" of the previous accusations of fraud, in which it was assured that solar plants generated light at night, which was "denied" by the CNE. According to him, it was the Secretary of State for Energy, Pedro Marín, who launched the suspicions.
"REGULATORY PROBLEM".
During the press conference, García Breva lamented the lack of "regulatory signals that give guarantees" and assured that the Ministry of Industry itself recognized that "the problem with renewables has not been technology, but regulation."
To the "mismatch" and "call effect" caused by Industry in technologies such as photovoltaics, García Breva added the lack of coordination between autonomous communities and the central government. The former, he explained, saw in renewables a "terrotorial development model" and launched to approve megawatts that the national system was not able to absorb.
REDUCTIONS IN OBJECTIVES.
García Breva also regretted that the Executive has been reducing its commitments to Brussels about the presence of renewable energies in electricity production. If at first the contribution to final consumption was going to be 22.7% in 2020, it was later reduced to 20.8%, so that, in the energy mix, the 'green' sources have gone from a target of 42.7% to 35.5%.
On the other hand, the president of Appa Fotovoltaica said that his sector felt "deceived" with the "unilateral" approval by Industry of the royal decree of revision of premiums, and doubted that there will be new negotiations about the future regulation. (EUROPA PRESS)
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