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Throughout WindEurope’s Annual Occasion 2024 in Bilbao, Spain, Teresa Ribera, the Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Problem, and Juan Diego Díaz, the President of the Spanish Wind Vitality Affiliation, formally endorsed the ‘Spanish Wind Constitution’. This constitution outlines strategic actions to expedite the expansion of wind vitality in Spain and maximize its socio-economic benefits.
The constitution earmarks six key areas for advancing the wind vitality sector and identifies the mandatory instruments to implement these methods:
- Enhancing visibility and resilience in wind vitality planning.
- Bettering the design of wind vitality auctions to prioritize non-price standards.
- Strengthening coordination amongst wind vitality firms.
- Enhancing predictability and inspiring long-term agreements.
- Monitoring worldwide commerce practices to forestall unfair competitors.
- Reinforcing Spain’s wind vitality manufacturing capabilities.
In December 2023, 26 EU vitality ministers signed the European Wind Constitution, committing to undertake the measures outlined within the European Wind Energy Package deal. Spain not solely joined this initiative however performed a pivotal position in rallying different international locations to take part. Most of the 300 firms endorsing the European Wind Constitution had been Spanish entities.
The signing of the ‘Spanish Wind Constitution’ highlights the Spanish Authorities’s and the wind sector’s dedication to fortifying wind vitality within the nation. Wind vitality is already a major supply of electrical energy in Spain, accounting for 27% of the nation’s complete electrical energy consumption.
Giles Dickson, CEO of WindEurope, stated “Final yr’s EU Wind Energy Package deal was a recreation changer – 15 rapid actions to strengthen Europe’s wind trade and pace up the growth of wind vitality. 26 Governments then signed a European Wind Constitution committing to implement the Package deal. It’s nice that Spain is now delivering on that dedication by signing a nationwide Wind Constitution spelling out the actions the Authorities and trade are going to take. Good public sale design, quicker allowing, assist for Spain’s wonderful wind trade – carry it on.”
Juan Diego Díaz, President of AEE, added “The present vitality state of affairs, along with the geopolitical situation of dependence on vitality merchandise and their worth chains, justifies the adoption of emergency mechanisms underneath a typical strategy within the European Union, which can permit additional progress in the direction of the Vitality Transition, whereas making certain strategic autonomy based mostly on the management of “cleantech” applied sciences in Europe, each of its actors and its essential provide chains. The signing of the Wind Vitality Constitution demonstrates that wind is likely one of the key applied sciences for the transition to renewable vitality sources, and initiatives a picture of Spain within the worldwide enviornment as a driving drive, a benchmark nation with the conviction to attain open industrial autonomy in clear applied sciences”.
