The Industry, true victim of the electrical reform of the government

The industry is the best and only trump card of Spain to create jobs for its irreplaceable role in the economic recovery. For the industry, high efficiency cogeneration is the great tool of improvement of costs, because industrial development and cogeneration go hand in hand. Well, new energy taxation the Government will sink the cogeneration and, as a consequence, will erode the competitiveness of its manufacturing industries associated with serious consequences for their activities.

For Spain, the way out of the crisis through empower industry to recover weight lost in its contribution to the GDP. It is clear that a solution to the power deficit should be addressed but the cogeneration has not experienced any bubble, grows since 2002, and provides surplus to the electrical system and to the country.

The measures of the new energy tax scheme are a direct impact on the cogeneration of up to 15/MWh to the join the impact of electric 6% tax on the Green penny to natural gas, which is 7% more expensive it. Electric tax leaves cogeneration at the gates of the closure, accumulated to the Green cent to natural gas, they miss him close.

And in addition, the cogenerators must enter Additionally the State from January 1, 2013 up to 200 million euros per year on purchase of CO₂ without that it recognizes its additional cost to the sector.

Cut-out unjustified suffering the sector from January to eliminate the possibility of substantial modification, and the cessation of ongoing projects not pre-asignados - a bug without amending regulatory-, what constitutes a funerary landscape for cogeneration and its industry is added to this.

In a moment so grave like the current, has to promote with more strength that never the cogeneration, since it goes directly linked to the energetic saving and to the competitiveness of the companies. Europe follows betting by the cogeneration and the main industrial countries continue increasing his utilisation, by what if our gap of industrial competitiveness keeps growing, the Spanish companies will compete in grave disadvantage with the ones of the rest of Europe. The government has to bet by the cogeneration and give a firm step to the reindustrialización, with the consequent profits that would comport for the national economy and the generation of employment.

The reform will have to surpass the parliamentary formalities and Receive trusts the work of the Parliament to realise the suitable amendments to the new diagram so that no tumben the cogeneration. Much more when, in past March, the own Parliament commissioned to the executive a plan of industrial competitiveness with special attention to the cogeneration. The reform presented now by the government is contrary to the aims of said parliamentary commission.

Receive, from the convencimiento of the need of an energetic reform, considers that they exist alternative so that the cogeneration was still working and giving service to the national industry so that this act like pillar of the economic recovery growing and winning in competitiveness and in generation of employment and wealth.

The cogeneration supplies power to 900 industrial plants, producing 12% of the national electricity and supposing 7% of the final power consumed in Spain. It uses 20% of the national total consumption of natural gas, and 30% of the generation with biomass is also cogeneration.