The Government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, valued the 6.6 million euros that the Government allocates for the promotion and implementation of energy communities in Galicia within the framework of its commitment to renewables as a tool to fight climate change. He did so during the closing on Wednesday of the conference ‘Energy Communities, a more expensive step for self-consumption’, organized by the Concello de Ames and in which he shared a rostrum, among others, with the mayor of the town, Blas García; the president of the Diputación de A Coruña, Valentín González Formoso, and the vice-president of the Fegamp, María Barral.
The delegate reported that the Government has just resolved the third and fourth calls of the CE-Implement program, financed from the funds of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan and focused on the promotion of production projects with renewable energy, energy efficiency or sustainable mobility. In this call there were four Galician projects benefited, with a global aid of 2.37 million euros, money that comes to add to the 2.53 million euros of the first two calls, in which there are three other Galician projects.
This programme is complemented by the CE-Offices, which aims to facilitate the start-up of new offices or the adaptation of existing ones with the aim of disseminating, accompanying and advising on the creation of energy communities. This program mobilized in Galicia 1.7 million euros creation of 8 offices, one of them in the City of Ames.
Pedro Blanco indicated that these programs “are examples of the determined commitment of the Government of Pedro Sánchez to the promotion of renewable energies, which is recovering the time lost in recent years in energy”. In this regard, he recalled that during the PP governments, “far from favouring renewable energies, their development was penalized to the point of imposing a tax on the sun”.
On the contrary, he pointed out that thanks to the new projects launched throughout this year, Spain exceeds by 10% the quota it needs to meet its environmental goals and is the second country in the European Union, only behind Sweden, which advances its energy transition forecasts.
Pedro Blanco highlighted the necessary collaboration between the different agents and administrations to respond to the challenges of the future, including climate change and the transition to a greener and more sustainable model. A change, he said, in which energy communities “are called to play a fundamental role, since they allow to take advantage of the resource in the same place that is consumed and make the most efficient use possible of it.”
The delegate called for “action now” to mitigate the effects of climate change. “This government is aware of the challenge ahead of us. Good proof of that are all the policies it carries out aimed at transforming our economic and productive model into a greener, more efficient and more sustainable one. And this day is an example of us going in the right direction,” he concluded.