Pedro Sánchez has ignored the request of the Valencian president, Carlos Mazón, and the regional employers’ association so that the Cofrentes nuclear power plant does not begin its operation. decommissioning in 2030.
That closing date is the one set by the Council of Ministers on December 27 when it approved the seventh General Plan of Radioactive Waste.
By then Cofrentes will have 47 years of existence and the experts of the Spanish electrical network consulted by Vozpópuli They assure that it is “in perfect condition” at present, so extending its useful life is “totally feasible.”
20 more years
They consider that extending production in Cofrentes for another 20 years is a matter to be considered. In the United States they operate twin power plants and they will have a useful life of 80 years, double what the one located in the Valencian municipality now has.
The importance of the Cofrentes nuclear plant is capital for the electricity generation from the Valencian Community, since 44% comes from this plant.
Half of the production is a figure to take into account because the alternative of other energies That they progressively replace nuclear power is valid but in the long term.
Renewables: testimonials
Currently in the Valencian Community – after nuclear energy – the next modality with the highest energy production is combined cycle with 18%.
Thirdly we find the wind (12.8%), followed by pump turbine (12.3%), cogeneration (5.5%), solar photovoltaic (3.6%), hydraulics (2.3%) and solar thermalthe set of non-renewable waste and other renewables that add up to 0.8%.
This is why all renewable energy sources, which are called to progressively replace nuclear energy (although this debate in other countries such as the United Kingdom, Belgium, Sweden, the United States or Italy focuses on the coexistence of both models), is not enough in the Valencian Community not even 20% of production.
Dependent on the outside
The Valencian president, Carlos Mazón, has explained that without Cofrentes the Valencian Community will exponentially increase its “energy dependence” – already matters 48% more of the energy it produces – and asks the Government, without success, to rectify and extend the useful life of Cofrentes.
Confirmation of the Cofrentes closing date must arrive in 2027, according to the current state plan, and the Valencian Government has already begun its campaign to prevent it.
It is already a new pulse with the Executive of Pedro Sanchez and it will be one of the key issues in the regional electoral campaign scheduled precisely in May of that year.
Increase the bill
The popular ones have already presented an initiative in the Valencian autonomous Parliament to request the continuity of Cofrentes because its closure will mean considerably increasing energy bills for homes and industries, and increasing the annual emission of 3 million tons of CO2 to the atmosphere.”
The dismantling of Cofrentes would also fully affect several municipalities in the interior of the province of Valencia where it generates 650 direct jobs and thousands indirectly.
These figures have not changed the course of the Government of Pedro Sánchez who, through his Valencian minister, Diana Moranthas insisted that Cofrentes will close in 2030.
Morant asks Mazón that in the coming years “do your homework” regarding the implementation of renewable energies to reach the aforementioned deadline in good condition.
Accumulated files
Now, the delay in the files for the implementation of renewable energy is great. Precisely, the Ximo Puig Government left more than 400 unprocessed files that, in the first year of Carlos Mazón’s Government, are being processed. trying to speed up although the process is very slow.
A figure that gives an idea of how late this plan was left by the PSOE and Compromís Government is that the Valencian Community only contributes 3% of renewable power throughout Spain, so the region could need more than 100 years to meet its goal of reaching 10,000 megawatts by 2030.
The firmness shown by Diana Morant in Spain against nuclear energy contrasts with that exhibited by her partner in the Government, Teresa Ribera.
Another speech in Europe
The third vice president, who in Spain is convinced antinuclearin his last intervention in Brussels, he did not appear to be in direct opposition to nuclear energy in future EU negotiations with the UN. He has assumed the French position.
That gap of contradiction It is what the Valencian Government of Carlos Mazón wants to take advantage of so that the continuity of Cofrentes has the door open and not absolutely closed as happens to this day.
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