The reform of the electricity bonus for large families, on hold

2023-06-29 18:16:12

Although the Third Vice President of the Government and Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, has rushed to extend the term for authorizing 380 renewable projects by six months, whose limit to obtain construction authorization expired on July 25, it will not happen the same with the announced reform of the bases to grant the electricity bonus to large families.

The changes to link these aids according to income criteria will remain, if they are carried out, for the government that comes out of the general elections on July 23, as Ribera has recognized before his intervention in the opening session of the congress of the Wind Business Association (AEE), which is being held today and tomorrow in Madrid.

“We have had several meetings with the associations of large families and we have a very clear analysis of how to accompany the most vulnerable consumers, including large families, without this representing such shocking situations as families with a very important level of income being benefited. by accompaniment of public budget that is designed for the middle class in general. But the process of reviewing and updating the royal decree that regulates this will hardly be able to come out before the elections, “said Ribera.

In March, after the controversy that arose when it was learned that both the then vice president of the Community of Madrid, Enrique Ossorio, and the leader of Mas Madrid, Mónica García, were benefiting from the thermal social bonus for vulnerable consumers, the third vice president announced the intention of the Government to introduce income criteria for large families who want to take advantage of the electricity social bonus, a discount on the electricity bill for vulnerable consumers who meet the established requirements.

The national nuclear waste plan is also left for after the elections. “It was submitted to public information, it has the environmental evolution and the report of the Nuclear Safety Council and we will have to adopt it after the elections,” he added.

For its part, the wind sector warned that the electrification of the economy “is not advancing at the necessary pace” so that it can accompany the renewable objectives set out in the new National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan (PNIEC) by 2030. President of the Wind Power Association, Juan Diego Díaz, put this risk on the table and assured that the development of renewables must “mandatorily be supported by an appropriate electricity demand, in dimension and terms.”