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Ribera meets with the parliamentary groups in the round of meetings for the Contingency Plan

MADRID, 1 Sep.

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Ribera meets with the parliamentary groups in the round of meetings for the Contingency Plan

MADRID, 1 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The third vice-president of the Government and minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, will meet this Thursday with the spokespersons of all the parliamentary groups to gather proposals that help Spain reduce its gas consumption with a view to designing the Plan of Contingency that the Government must send to Brussels.

Specifically, Ribera will receive from 6:00 p.m. the representatives of the political parties at the headquarters of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, reported the cabinet led by the minister.

These meetings are part of the new round of conversations that Ribera has started with the main sectoral, social, political and civil society agents with a view to designing the Contingency Plan.

For now, the third vice-president of the Government has already met with the presidents of Naturgy, Francisco Reynés; from Iberdrola, Ignacio Sánchez Galán, and from Redeia, Beatriz Corredor; as well as with the CEO of Enagás, Arturo Gonzalo Aizpiri. She has also held meetings with representatives of the electricity (Aelec) and gas (Sedigas) employers.

This round of talks comes after the validation in Congress, last week, of the energy saving decree, which will finally be processed as a bill for the inclusion of some modifications demanded by the government partners.

The decree, whose measures will continue to be applied despite being processed as a bill, includes the first package of energy saving measures planned to comply with the voluntary reduction in gas consumption, given the risk of a supply cut by Russia , as well as aid for the promotion of public transport such as free Cercanías, Rodalíes and Media Distancia services from September 1 to the end of the year.

This energy saving plan, which will be completed with the design of the Contingency Plan, limits heating and cooling temperatures to 19 and 27 degrees Celsius, respectively, in public administration buildings, commercial establishments such as department stores or shopping centres, cultural spaces or transport infrastructures such as stations or airports. The norm excludes hospitals, educational centers, gyms, hairdressers or restaurant kitchens.

Likewise, it requires the lights of shop windows and unoccupied public buildings to be turned off after 10:00 p.m. and requires that before September 30, both buildings and premises have automatic closures on access doors to prevent them from being permanently open.

Commercial spaces, public buildings, cultural spaces and hotels that fail to comply with the energy saving and efficiency plan approved by the Government will face fines of up to 60,000 euros for minor infractions, up to six million euros for serious infractions and up to 100 million euros for the very serious.

The same decree law also contains new calls for aid for land transport of goods, speeds up renewable energy and storage facilities and contemplates the complementary scholarship of 100 euros for anyone who receives scholarships and study aid announced by the President of the Government in the Last Debate on the State of the Nation.