SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 31. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Vice Minister of the Presidency of the Government of the Canary Islands, Antonio Olivera, has shown this Thursday the rejection of the Executive to the option proposed by the State in the royal decree law of measures on the war in Ukraine to liberalize the construction of regasification plants outside the facilities of electric power generation.
“The Government is going to follow its strategy, we have firmly conveyed it, we are not going to change our minds”, he detailed in the press conference after the Governing Council in which he highlighted his rejection of the “macro-regasification plants” and ” only” its use for self-consumption in electrical installations and ports and in combination with green hydrogen.
Olivera has specified that it was not necessary to change the regulations to speed up the permits “because if it is for self-consumption it does not require prior authorization” and he understands that it will allow the combined cycles and the ports themselves to be fed in such a way that the ships “do not have their engines running , which are a source of pollution, and can connect to the port and feed on electricity through the mixture of green hydrogen and gas”.
He has pointed out that this strategy to facilitate the introduction of green hydrogen “is agreed upon” so that in the first phases it is mixed with gas and gradually changes the proportion, making it clear that the Government’s “road map” is clear with the development of The renewable energies.
Thus, he pointed out that “the most reasonable thing” is that the capacity to transform liquefied natural gas into gas “is done within the power generation facilities” and that “it cannot be marketed”.
Olivera gave the example of the cruise ship ‘AIDA’, which works with gas that the ship itself supplies through its own small regasification plant that transforms liquefied natural gas, vaporizes it and turns it into gas. “We want this concept to reach electric power plants,” she has indicated.
