PSOE and Podemos reject in Congress the PP law to regulate hydrogen, which Vox and Ciudadanos do not support either

MADRID, 28 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The PSOE and United We Can have rejected this Tuesday in the Plenary Session of Congress the PP's bill with a regulatory framework for hydrogen, which has also not had the support of Vox or Ciudadanos.

To defend his law, the deputy Juan Diego Requena has claimed that the proposal would make Spain a pioneer country in Europe and has argued that, in order to put an end to any uncertainty, it is necessary to facilitate the planned investments, establish the mechanisms for its production and transport and ensure means for proper use.

However, the PSOE sees the PP's proposal as "a torpedo for the future of industrial zones" linked to this technology, since it is liberalizing and proposes "that an immature technology compete with others."

"It is not the marked path", he has said, defending the planned investments of the Recovery Plan and the plan approved by the Government for hydrogen, as has Miguel Ángel Bustamante (IU), who has nevertheless warned that the Most hydrogen comes from fossil fuels, contravening emissions targets.

VOX AND Cs DOUBT THE "RUSH" OF THE PP

"There are so many doubts that creating a legal framework quickly and running can generate more confusion than what already exists," said Julio Utrillo, from Vox, who has opted for direct aid and incentives for projects and activities in the sector, since by now there is no consolidated market.

For Citizens, Carmen Martínez Granados has recalled that a community directive on natural and renewable gas markets will soon arrive, so she sees no point in supporting this proposal in which concepts such as the storage facility, the completion of hydrogen , the principles of traceability and additionality or free access to third parties.

For the PNV, the PP proposal may be "a good starting point for the debate", but it has lamented the neglect of renewable gases, of elements such as hydroelectric plants and that it copies the regulatory ordering of gas when it is yet to be known, Idoia Sagastizabal has said, if there is a partial integration in the current system or a radical transformation for a hydrogen-only market.

Joan Capdevila, from ERC, has acknowledged sharing some points, although he has been suspicious of the 'popular' way of carrying out a regulation without prior sectoral and political debate, as well as the "recentralizing will" that he detects in the norm.

A trend also noted by Pilar Calvo (Junts) who sees in the PP rule "a highway" for gas companies, due to all kinds of "obstacles" to local administrations, in addition to being alarmed by the removal of administrative authorization for self-consumption installations in homes or local energy communities. "We are talking about a highly flammable and explosive material. But in what head does it fit?", She has asked herself.