Economic Vice President Nadia Calviño and Ecological Transition Minister Teresa Ribera are warning communities to “comply with the law,” published in the BOE on Tuesday.
Seven days. It is the term that local residents and buildings must adapt to the energy saving plan that was approved by the government on Monday and published in the Government Gazette (BOE) on Tuesday.
The text does not contain the sanctions that those who do not comply with measures such as the air conditioning limit or the mandatory closing of the doors will have to undergo in order to avoid wasting energy. However, sources from the Ministry of Industry explain that the sanction regime to be applied will be the regime currently in force for non-compliance with the RITE (Regulation of Thermal Installations in Buildings) and that it is regulated by Law 21/1992, of 16 July, on Industry. .
According to the provisions of this sanctions regime, violations are punished with fines of up to 60,000 euros if they are minor. The serious will have to receive a penalty of up to six million euros, while the “very serious” can reach 100 million euros.
Economic Vice President Nadia Calviño said on Monday that the powers to monitor compliance with energy efficiency mechanisms belong to the autonomous communities, and called for a “solidarity response” to contribute to the strategic autonomy needed to reduce dependence on Russian gas .
On this point, Calviño alluded to the statements of the President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who already warned Monday evening that the region will not comply with the plan, which also includes blackouts from 10 a.m. in buildings and monuments, as other European countries such as Germany already do.
“A royal decree must be complied with,” said Calviño during an interview on ‘La Ser’. The economic vice president asked the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to put himself in front of Ayuso’s command, recalling that the president of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, a member of the European People’s Party, has already warned that it is necessary to “prepare for the worst” in light of a possible scenario of a reduction in the supply of Russian gas.
For its part, the Third Vice-President of the Government and Minister for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, has also shown her confidence that all officials “comply with the law and the efforts demanded of us from Europe”.
“The approved measures are very reasonable and I think the public understands them very well,” Calviño insisted. Specifically, and as stated in the royal decree published by the BOE on Tuesday, public buildings, commercial spaces and department stores, transport infrastructure (airports and train and bus stations), cultural spaces and hotels will limit the use of air conditioning in the summer and 19 degrees the heating in winter.
This package of measures, which complements the RITE, will result in the lights on shop windows and public buildings that are vacant being turned off after 10 p.m., a measure they have seven days to comply with.
A period of one week after publication in the BOE applies to all these initiatives and applies until 1 November 2023.
Also that the decorative lighting of facades is switched off from 10 p.m., while the regulation of outdoor lighting only affects buildings for public use, not decorative, for example Christmas lighting.
Likewise, by September 30, both buildings and buildings must have automatic closures on the entrance doors to prevent them from opening permanently, resulting in wastage due to energy losses to the outside.
Likewise, posters should be included to explain these savings measures in establishments, as well as to inform about temperatures and humidity levels.
The measures also include the requirement to undergo an extraordinary assessment before 31 December 2022 for those mandatory buildings that have completed the previous procedure before 1 January 2021, so that all buildings with relevant air conditioning consumption have passed an inspection within the last two years. year.
In this way, to quickly carry out energy improvement works in government buildings, they can apply emergency contract procedures. In addition, these contracts will be executed in less than a month after their formalization, according to the head of the branch.
Source: La Verdad
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