The Minister for Ecological Transition rules out power cuts in Spain in the coming months and points out that Brussels will allow different price cap models to keep all countries happy
A day after French President Emmanuel Macron closed the door to the construction of the gas pipeline that would connect Spain to his country through the Pyrenees (the Midcat), Ecological Transition Minister Teresa Ribera believes that “the MidCat debate cannot be closed by the ruling of a country” and acknowledges that, like all rulers, Macron “interceded for French public opinion”. He did so in an interview on Onda Cero.
Macron had definitively rejected the MidCat gas pipeline project that would connect the peninsula to Europe for the supply of gas from Algeria. According to the French president, this would entail unnecessary costs, as the two current gas pipelines (Irun and Larrau-Calahorra) are being used at 53% of their capacity.
Regarding the energy crisis and the price of energy, Ribera assures that Spain will not have a supply problem, but prices will rise significantly, as already seen. “If action is not taken at European level, it is difficult to know what will happen,” said the minister about the current sales price of gas, which “is well above cost”.
Regarding the possibility of extending the so-called ‘Iberian exception’ to other countries of the European Union, Teresa Ribera acknowledges that “it is difficult for her to work in all countries”. For this reason, Brussels is studying offering “a menu of two or three options”, so that each country implements the option it considers its best option.
Source: La Verdad
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