The European Commission begins to give steps to a greater support to the cogeneration in front of the difficulties in the markets

Take Europe, European association of the cogeneration of which is integrated Receive, has communicated that the steering of Power of the European Commission has evidenciado that the cogeneration is vulnerable to the failures of the electrical markets Europeans, constatación reinforced by the last statistics of Holland, where the fall of the production of electricity of the industrial cogeneration is eroding the efforts realizar in energetic efficiency and of Spain, where the industry has announced that 25% of the industrial cogeneration (1,5 GW) has stopped from mediated of 2013. The loss of these plants of high efficiency is a message of alert to the decisores European and national that are debating a frame for the energetic politics and of climatic change of the European Union, and the changes in the electrical market.

As they Take Europe, the industrial cogeneration crosses difficulties in several countries because of extreme fluctuations of the prices of the electricity in the market and the situations of sobrecapacidad, what joined to the high prices of gas has done that the industrial cogenerations are to the limit to be able to follow producing in the short term. They take Europe ensures in a note that the events in the energetic markets are sucediendo in a moment crucial of the cycle of investment of a lot of operators of industrial plants, with intolerable financial risks to be able to reinvertir in these plants of high efficiency.

In his answer to the parliamentary question, the Steering of Power of the Commission, indicated his intention to take measures: “The commission monitors regularly the developments in the markets and is preparing initiatives to help to facilitate the investment in plants of cogeneration from a perspective on a long-term basis”. The answer contemplates “an own platform in the implementation of the measures for the industry of the Directive of Energetic Efficiency, in particular for the cogeneration and the energetic auditss, to realizar in 2014”.

The parliamentary question called the attention on the Spanish situation indicating that “they are difficult times for the industry in Spain. There is not doubt that the high efficiency of the cogeneration supports to the European aims of energetic efficiency and industrial competitiveness. We have to find ways to keep the existent cogenerations in this period convulso, so that the industry can surface with strength of the crisis and benefit in the long term”. They take Europe will celebrate in Brussels his annual conference that will centre in the paper of the cogeneration to promote the economic recovery of Europe.