Toledo.- The delegate of the Government of Spain in Castilla-La Mancha, Milagros Tolón, inaugurated this Thursday in Noblejas (Toledo) the First State Meeting of Energy Transition Offices and Community Transformation Offices where she highlighted the Government of Spain’s impulse to the energy communities to advance in the just transition.
This day aims to analyze and debate the situation of these bodies and their role in the energy transition model and the promotion of energy communities. It involves heads of offices, municipalities, communities, advisory points and agencies interested in the promotion of energy communities.
This is an issue “of vital importance for our present and for our future to which the Government of Spain has given great relevance,” said Milagros Tolón, who has referred to the Transformation and Resilience Recovery Plan “as an opportunity to articulate and support the process of transformation and modernization of our country.”
Sustainable development
A new model “based on sustainable development, respect for the environment and energy efficiency”. To this end, “we must make a firm commitment to clean and renewable energies, to decarbonization and to a more limited and reasonable use of natural resources” and that generates “fair, solidarity and democratic” growth.
This global project “challenges us all and requires the individual and collective commitment and participation of everyone, from large international corporations and multinationals to SMEs, municipalities and each one of us with our daily habits and customs”.
In this way, said the delegate of the Government in her speech, “the impulse of local energy communities is presented as a key piece” since “every day it is more evident that citizens want to participate in the energy model, as they do in other areas of society, and energy communities offer many advantages”.
Advantages
These advantages include savings in energy costs, greater democratization of the energy system, the dynamization of local activity, job creation, reducing energy poverty and establishing a population in municipalities facing demographic challenges.
The Government of Spain “wants all territories to take an active role in the energy transition and benefit from the advantages it generates, such as the reduction of energy, independence from the tensions that occur in the international energy markets or the generation of economic activity,” said Milagros Tolón.
The transition and transformation offices “play a key role in this shared project because their mission is to spread these benefits, guide the people and entities involved, promote their implementation and accompany these projects so that they reach a successful conclusion”.
Before concluding, the delegate of the Government highlighted the drive of the City of Noblejas, and its mayor, Agustín Jiménez, “which has detected the window of opportunity that opens in this field, being a pioneer municipality in the implementation of an Energy Transition Office and organizing these days that bring us together today.”
Finally, meetings like this, which facilitate the exchange of knowledge and experiences, “contribute to improving the management of these offices with a common objective that we share from the Government of Spain: Improve people’s lives, generate development, employment and well-being and do so with respect for the environment to leave our children a fairer world, more supportive and with natural resources intact,” said the Government delegate.