Backrest in the European Union to the cogeneration
17 December 2013
In an interpellation to the European Commission, the vice-president of the European Parliament, Alejo Vidal-Quadras, has demanded of urgent way that loan attention to the big challenges that faces the industrial cogeneration. The vice-president has asked which actions are taking to ensure that technologies like the cogeneration keep and improve the energetic competitiveness of the European industries.
The European industry is a big consumer of power (315 Mtep to the year), and the cogeneration provides to the companies a road to reduce, simultaneously, his energetic bills and his footprint of carbon.
The parliamentary question resalta the big opportunity of Europe, that has interest prioritario in developing on a long-term basis all his potential of energetic efficiency, and signals that the European Union continues supporting the cogeneration through different managerial, including the Directive of Energetic Efficiency.
In spite of this support, the industrial cogeneration faces big challenges with the transition to a low electrical market in broadcasts of carbon, a situation that in the actuality is worsening by the high prices of natural gas.
The parliamentary question does upsetting in that the politics of some states members on the energetic markets can end in reductions in the use of the cogeneration in any of these countries, because of the increasing uncertainty of the investors and to the fault of structuring of these energetic politics on a long-term basis. Thus, interpela to the Commission on what is can do it this to support this technology that contributes greater productivity and lower broadcasts in this difficult transitory period.
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