PES warns of the risk for the wind sector if the new regulation is not adopted

AEE insists more than two years the need to develop the new framework given the long period of maturation of wind projects and the need for the sector plan in advance. Now AEE requests an exercise in responsibility to avoid one paralysis in even more of a sector that employs more than 30,000 people, is 0.34% of GDP, exports technology for more than 2 billion euros and save fossil fuel imports by 1.5 billion euros a year. The wind sector has already lost ten thousand jobs in the past two years.

If the major manufacturers of wind turbines are doomed to relocations and redundancies due to the lack of activity, same thing will happen with other manufacturers of components, developers and companies that provide service to the sector.

In addition, AEE requests that extensions that allow the 1,400 MW registered in the registration of Preallocation have problems to be constructed before the date for registration (as of December 31, 2012) for reasons not attributable to the promoters, such as failure to comply with the planning of the transport network, the delay in distribution lines or administrative difficulties enable. These 1,400 MW account for nearly 60 per cent of the registered power and installed during 2011 and 2012, the last under the current regulation.