Cantabria stimulates the wind sector through the Administrative Simplification Act, which has allowed them to reduce bureaucratic procedures. The Community is confident that this sector will be strengthened during the current legislature.
The Minister of Industry, Employment, Innovation and Trade, Eduardo Arasti, today took part in the Assembly of the Wind Association of Cantabria (AEC) and conveyed the government’s support Cantabria to the wind sector, with confidence start generating wind energy this term in the Autonomous Community.
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To this end, he emphasized the role that the new Law on Administrative Simplification will play in shortening the deadlines for bureaucratic procedures to speed up the implementation of projects in a sector, which of wind energy, is “awaiting a decisive start to work”. with the working on the El Escudo wind farm.
The company BioCantaber has mobilized an investment of 100 million euros to provide wind energy to almost 100,000 homes, to which we must add the Bustatur Park, managed by the State, which already has at its disposal the permission from the Government of Cantabriawhich means that 150 megawatts of clean and sustainable energy must be generated between the two parks and a total investment of 160 million euros.
The Minister of Industry has reported that the government of Cantabria has already unblocked the administrative situation of five wind farms, which already have an administrative permit for construction, a “favorable situation that will allow this legislator to can generate wind energy in Cantabria”, which he believes will bring numerous benefits.
Emphasizing the energy independence that this type of energy will give to the region and the contribution of this type of energy “clean and cheaper” energy» to improve the competitiveness of industrial companies, and in particular electricity-intensive companies, «which have an energy price three times that of France and double that of Germany».
Arasti has highlighted the “strong” strategy to reduce administrative procedures and bureaucratic burdens, which includes the declaration of strategic business projects, in such a way that the government of Cantabria can, as explained, anyone who has a special economic, social or territorial relevance.
“This is a regulation to protect those business projects that, due to their significant economic and social impact, are declared as priority or strategic by the Government of Cantabria”, indicated the adviser, who has insisted that it is an “indispensable” measure to encourage investments in investments Cantabria and to develop these types of projects within a reasonable time, “maximizing their profitability and creating quality employment.”
The advisor appreciated the work of the Wind Energy Association Cantabria in promoting the economic development of the region with a new production model that protects the values of the environment, while requesting their cooperation in involving society in promoting wind energy for its ability to generate industry, services and quality employment, as well as its ability to handle the rest of the productive substance a clean energy that has important environmental benefits and contributes to significantly reducing fossil fuel dependence and ecological footprint.
Finally, the chairman of the Wind Association of Cantabria Agustín Valcarce has thanked the government’s support Cantabria in this legislature with the sector and has expressed its satisfaction at seeing how “a drought of more than 10 years” by the regional government without wind infrastructure in Cantabria is ending with “important” measures such as the new Administrative Simplification Law and the power thereof streamlining ‘long’ processes of administrative bureaucracy.
The government of Cantabria With these measures, it is taking the necessary steps to reduce the use of fossil fuels and is focusing heavily on fossil fuel emissions clean and renewable energy, especially wind energy.