The third vice president says today’s measures will focus on thermal use and exclude speed limits
“The Spaniards will not be cold this winter.” This was guaranteed yesterday by the Third Vice President and Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, who, however, called on the individual contribution that each citizen can make to save energy and advocated wearing “a comfortable sweater or jacket » in homes.
Ribera argued that the energy-saving plan that the Council of Ministers will approve this Monday will “essentially” focus on the thermal use of buildings, both public and private, and will not consider “no scenario of restrictions for the time being”, nor will the speed be capped to the maximum. road, a measure that was however left open to be applied around the turn of summer, as this royal decree is a first step towards a “much more complete and strategic” plan that will be presented for the whole of the country in September.
The main measure of this Royal Decree is to limit the temperature in public buildings and workplaces to 27 degrees, if it is air conditioning, or 19 degrees, if heating is the system being used. Because for every degree that is reduced, according to the minister, 7% is saved on electricity consumption.
“What we are doing is updating some of the measures and that particular regime is in turn considering a sanctions regime,” Ribera clarified.
In the case of households, all measures become recommendations. But the plan includes the obligation to monitor the boilers and to put up billboards with tips to save energy. There will even be a citizen awareness campaign to save electricity, with specific measures in, for example, the use of electrical appliances or insulation of homes.
In any case, the person in charge of the ecological transition emphasized that a supply reduction situation is not being considered, as it can happen in other European countries, such as Germany, and defended that “it is not so much about emphasizing what is mandatory », but that in a situation like this it is «reasonable and positive to contribute what everyone can» in his «daily behaviour».
“In our case, the delivery is guaranteed, we have a different profile, but it is important to push the call so that we can contribute to the extent we can,” emphasized Teresa Ribera, who advocated making compatible thermal comfort measures with “intelligent and efficient” from an energy source that can make it easier for neighboring countries to access what is not consumed here, something that can happen in winter, he illustrated, by wearing “a comfortable sweater or a jacket”. to wear.
Source: La Verdad
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