The Government will urge companies, offices, businesses, shopping centers and transport to control temperature conditions to avoid energy waste, within the framework of the package of urgent measures for energy efficiency and saving that will be approved in the Council of Ministers next Monday.
The goal is that in summer the air conditioners of premises, establishments and transport are not below 27 degreeswhile in winter the systems of heating should not exceed 19 degreesas reported to Europa Press in sources familiar with the measures.
This first package of measures will be aimed at the private sector, but will not be coercive, and it is expected that households will be left out in the first instance.
The Executive will also appeal to rationalize on and off schedules of air conditioning, ventilation, domestic hot water, lighting and office equipment installations in office buildings, as well as the rest of the energy-consuming equipment, so as to minimize their energy use, thus transferring part of the plan of energy saving and efficiency of the General Administration of the State and the entities of the state institutional public sector, approved last May.
The measures are also expected to include the promotion of photovoltaic installations for self-consumption in buildings, which could count on subsidies. It should be noted that this Friday, the National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC) has adapted a series of measures that simplify the procedures for contracting electricity self-consumption in Spain, with the aim of promoting the entry of renewable energies, the decarbonization of the economy and competition in the retail market.
Specifically, the regulator has simplified the administrative procedures related to contracting, billing and claims for low-power and collective self-consumption.
With a view to rationalizing the use of buildings, measures will be recommended to maintain a optimum level of occupancy of the properties.
At the moment it is unknown if the package of measures will include, as happened with the Administration’s savings plan, the recommendation to reinforce the modality of remote workin order to reduce the energy impact produced, both by commuting to the workplace, and by energy consumption in the workplace itself.
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In any case, it is taken for granted that the Executive will commit to promoting the use of public or collective transport and other sustainable mobility measures, taking advantage of the fact that the Government will discount 100% of the subscriptions for various trips for Cercanías, Rodalies and average trains distance operated by Renfe, so they will become free from September 1 of this year until December 31.
It will also encourage use of the bicycle as an example of sustainable transport, facilitating parking points.