Compromís accepts the words of the President of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig – “we always fulfill our commitments, whether we like them so much or not” – to take for granted an agreement within the Botànic regarding renewable energies that, judging due to the positions of each other, it is not such.
With the date of December 1 on the horizon, when the Treasury commission that should serve to specify and agree on the amendments of the groups to the Accompaniment Law meets, Compromís is already beginning to work on a scenario of possible agreement.
In fact, yesterday he presented his renewable energy model to the media with a fundamental piece, the creation of a Valencian Energy Agency, whose creation the PSPV has not supported in the amendments presented by Compromís and Unides Podem.
The trustee of Compromís, Papi Robles, and the group’s deputy deputies, Carles Esteve and Vicent Marzà, stressed in their appearance that the Agency must drive the orderly implementation of the new photovoltaic plants from the public sphere. “The objective is to accelerate the implementation of renewable energies but not to do it in a hurry and badly as in the time when we began to build farms and PAI,” said the parliamentary spokesperson, hence the public leadership in this entire process, she stressed.
Robles also indicated that the Ministry of Economy did request that this new agency be included in the Accompaniment Law, responding to President Ximo Puig that in Les Corts he had pointed out that it was not his responsibility that the creation of this agency was not in the norm that accompanies budgets.
With all these discrepancies still to be resolved and with almost no time to do so, Compromís pointed out yesterday that its proposal does not go through the installation of large solar power plants in the interior far from the urban centers that it has to supply, but through small infrastructures stuck in places that do not affect the environment.
For this reason, the deputies explained that their first idea is to occupy the roofs of the buildings already built in the different towns. Marzà explained that a recent IVACE study, developed by the Technological Institute of Energy, appreciates that by installing photovoltaic panels on 40% of existing roofs and covers “an installed power of 14,000 megawatts could be achieved” more than half of the 6,000 MW that the Valencian Government has set as a goal for 2030. For this, he recognized, aid and political will are necessary.
With the roofs covered (the explanatory campaign that the municipalities are going to develop is entitled, precisely, Start pels sostre), Compromís understands that plants could be installed on undeveloped industrial land, undeveloped urban land and degraded land to produce local energy . According to his calculations, in the Valencian Community there are 50 million square meters and unbuilt PAI that have enormous generation potential right next to where it is consumed: cities and industries. In them, they point out, “converting unused industrial and urban plots into photovoltaic plants, 2,000 MW could be generated, 30% of the target set for 2030.”
Only then, the coalition understands, could it be decided to look for other locations for the installation of new plants. Of course, in a respectful way with the environment and with the participation of neighbors and town halls
