Sara Aagesen that since 2018 she was an adviser to the cabinet of the Ecological transition and demographic challenge (Miteco) And now he directs. It was before Secretary of Energy State, Position that showed since 2020” Yesterday he was chairman of the Sectorial energy conference.
The Vice President and Minister of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (Miteco), Sara AagesenDid the challenge on Thursday 2025 Energy sector conferenceWhere he has shared the most important progress of recent months with the regional directors and emphasizes the big change that has taken place in Spain in recent years, which is reflected in the requests for access to the network: “The jump is considerable; Where there was a vegetative question, and especially for generation, now the most important demand of the industry, the ports, the railways, of the industrial and productive substance, which confirms the great attraction of the country ”.
The Vice President has indicated that the Ministry of the Ecological transition and demographic challenge (Miteco) Already outlining the following electricity planning 2025-2030 and It has broken down that requests for access to the question represent 41%of the applications, followed by the generation (40%) and the storage (19%).
He added that interest in generation is maintained: the requests of photovoltaic They are five times more than necessary to the Integrated National Energy and Climate Plan 2023-2030 (PNIEC)that of wind twice and that of storage Nine times; And also that the importance of industrial investments is derived from the great development of renewable energetic.
Sara Aagesen He has emphasized that it is not possible Place them to keep trilateral meetings with Red Eléctrica and Miteco to refine the planning designalways with the focus on industrial requirements, the Derbonization And the competitiveness of the country.
It has specified that annual investment limits will be assessed with regard to GDP in electrical networks, but maintaining a balanced approach to contain costs transferred to consumers.
Recovery, transformation and resilience (PRTR): 5,000 million for CCAA
During the meeting, the evolution of the implementation of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience (PRTR) planespecially in the seven territorialized lines, endowed with more than 5,000 million euro: Self -consumption, storage and thermal for the living sector; Thermal renewable energy sources in various sectors of the economy; Moves II and movements III; POOT AND PREE 5000; and islands of plan.
Here is the need to increase the available information to evaluate progress correctly, influenced And the needs with a view to the implementation limit dates set by the European Commission.
One of the specific points of the implementation of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience (PRTR) plan It is the Electric mobility and promotion plans, such as Moves IIIwho have received more than 2,000 million In recent years.
During the meeting it was appreciated that there are already more than 40,000 public restorations And an effort was requested to supervise the application, within the reach of autonomous competencies, of measures such as the Obligation of large petrol stations and parking spaces of public charging pointsas well as Facilitate the processing of the use of charging points.
Vecht energy poverty
Also during the conference Work in the fight against energy poverty is known And the vice -president has asked for maximum cooperation with regard to the elaboration of the new national strategy against energy poverty, currently in the earlier public consultation phase.
Although The number of beneficiaries of social bonus has increased and increases from one million houses in 2018 to 1.6 million Currently, one of the most important objectives of this new strategy is “that nobody is left without the right to social bond without it”, in the words of Sara Aagesen.
In that sense, The great inequality of vulnerable consumers who are at risk of social exclusion that has been identified in the various areas has been emphasized And the need to get the most needy collective of attention from the various administrations and social services to reduce energy poverty.
The importance of involving regional and local governments has also been emphasized to apply the security framework of the energy regulations to all its potential beneficiaries.
The management costs of ‘nuclear waste’ are 20,000 million
At the request of five autonomous communities, in the 2025 Energy sector conference It has the possibility to change the final calendar of nuclear power stations. The Vice President Aageenen has insisted on it The calendar was agreed by companies and embodied in a protocol signed in 2019 And that none of the companies of the Central has been requested.
He also remembered that calendar Extends the useful life of the power station, in 40 years, to an average of 45.8 yearsand that the ordered and progressive closure is the basis of the Trunkbased on renewable development that promotes the inflow of industrial investments.
“The government is working on a double aspect with nuclear energy: guaranteeing security TrunkAnd promote a fair transition in the areas where the central substances close.
With regard to the taxes of the central, the vice president remembered that the government did not adjust the imposition of nuclear power plants.
Regarding Radioactive waste management costsAn operational costs of the plant, Aagessen explained: “When we arrived at the government, a 2006 Waste Management Plan, fully outdated, and a new plan, the seventh, approved at the end of 2023.
It is a plan calculated Waste management costs at 20,000 millionThat They have to listen to the companies of the CentraleAccording to the principle of ‘He pollutes, pays”, Explained before he asked ‘Those who ask to reduce nuclear taxes want those 20,000 million to be paid by Spaniards instead of companies? “
Finally the vice president He has offered Mitec’s maximum collaboration And has familiar to meet each of his representatives to tackle concrete issues of each territory.