The Ministry of Ecological Transition has been a hive of comings and goings in recent days. The Minister for the Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, is complying with what was announced in the last Council of Ministers and is meeting with the different social actors to put together the contingency plan that Europe is demanding in the face of possible gas supply cuts in the next Autumn Winter.
The first to pass through the Plaza de San Juan de la Cruz were the large electricity companies with whom they had already spoken individually before the debate on the state of the nation. As the minister explained on Wednesday, one of the topics discussed in those conversations was the possible delay of the As Pontes thermal power plant (now in execution) and owned by Endesa. The Government, which does not advocate this, has commissioned Red Eléctrica to carry out different scenarios because the objective is to guarantee 100% of the supply in an exceptional situation such as the current one.
For today, Ribera has, among others, an appointment with social agents, various energy employers and with the large oil companies and fuel distributors. With the latter, one of the issues that will not be missing on the table will be, in addition to the contingency plan, the impact that they will suffer with the new tax on energy companies. In fact, they will be the most affected by this, since as the vice president of Iberdrola Spain, Antonio Carmona, pointed out this Wednesday, "the new tax will be charged to oil and gas companies, which represent 75% of the energy sold in Spain".
