The minister has said that they are not considering any limits on gas supply for the autumn/winter and that the measures of the Energy Contingency Plan will be applied from September, which aims to provide an immediate response to the alarm in Europe.
The Minister of Economic Development, Sustainability and Environment, Arantxa Tapia, has said that gas supplies are reasonably guaranteed at the moment. However, he pointed out that the Basque government is concerned because they do not know what price the gas will reach and how it will affect the population and industry.
“While there are no restrictions foreseen in the supply of gas for the autumn/winter in the Basque Country, this reality will affect the increase in the cost of this resource in particular, and in the price of energy in general,” Tapia said in a press conference held after the Institutional Group on Energy Sustainability meeting.
The Basque institutions will apply an “Energy Contingency Plan” from September 1, including: wide range of recommendations to reduce the consumption of electricity and gas and other fuels in the public sector, including: set the office thermostat to 20 degrees in winter and 25 degrees in summerdo not illuminate areas that are not in use and do not encourage employees to walk, cycle or use public transport.
The measures envisaged in this plan, the draft of which was approved on Friday, are in the nature of “recommendations” that appeal to the “responsibility and solidarity” of the administrations and of all citizens, so they are not mandatory, according to the minister. for Economic Development, Sustainability and Environment of the Basque Government, Arantxa Tapia.
The preliminary text of the plan, which will be continued in the coming weeks so that it can be applied in the Basque public sector as a whole from September 1, was approved on Friday during a meeting of the Institutional Sustainability Group Energy, which will bring together all the departments of the Basque government. , the Provincial Council and the Association of Basque Municipalities-Eudel are represented. “NO RESTRICTIONS ON GAS ARE FORESEEN” The document agreed upon by the Basque Institutions underlines that “While it is true that As foreseen in the Basque Country for the coming autumn/winter, it is confirmed that this reality will affect us in any case in the rise in the cost of this resource, as well as in the rise in the price of energy in general.
In this regard, the government, councils and Eudel deem it necessary to implement an ‘Energy Contingency Plan’ in light of the ‘energy warning’ caused by supply problems and rising gas prices in the European Union, which states that “Requires today to contribute to the reduction of gas and energy consumption in order to intervene in time to minimize tensions in the autumn/winter”.
The agreed measures are aimed at the public sector, with the aim of acting as an “exemplary player”, as stated in the document approved by this group, which met at the headquarters of the regional government in Vitoria-Gasteiz.
However, the intention is for the energy saving and efficiency measures to be “internalized” and applied – to the extent of the capabilities and the situation of each – by the population as a whole, such as by Tapia at the end of the meeting.
Among the recommendations in the document agreed by the Executive Board, provincial and municipal councils, it is included to set the thermostat in the offices at 20 degrees in winter and 25 degrees in summer, without using the lights of dependencies not being used or encouraging workers’ commute on foot, bicycle, or public transportation.
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Source: EITB
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