SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Aug. 7 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Gomera Socialist Group (ASG) has registered several initiatives in the Parliament of the Canary Islands to urge the State to make the necessary regulatory changes and simplifications to strengthen the island’s electrical systems.
This was announced by the ASG spokesman, Casimiro Curbelo, who specified that since this week a series of legislative proposals have been planned that are already in the Autonomous Chamber and the same will also be done in the Senate, once the Cortes Generales are constituted.
In the words of Curbelo, “now it is time to put an end to a reality that the Canary Islands have suffered for a long time and that leaves the generation systems in a limbo of insecurity due to the limitations imposed by Law 27/2013 on guarantee of supply and increase in competition between insular and extra-peninsular systems”.
In this sense, it clarified that the real result of the application of this norm “has diminished the possibilities of renewal, a situation of which the State has been repeatedly alerted in recent years”, for which reason it insisted on exempting the two archipelagos of the limitations established by the current law.
ASG will ask about the measures that the regional Executive is agreeing with the Government of Spain to respond to the regulatory, control and media needs so that situations such as the one experienced in La Gomera are not repeated in the Canary Islands.
In addition, it will reiterate the transfer to the Canary Islands of control of competition to limit monopoly situations such as those that exist in the green islands on the distribution of fuels and power generation.
He advanced that from the Senate, ASG will promote a Law Proposal, which will join the set of actions already presented, which will also delve into the comprehensive planning of the energy model of the island territories, “which are currently the weakest in the country , with consequences like the ones we have had in La Gomera”. In this way, he appealed to carry out “an exhaustive analysis of the deficiencies of each generation system and put all the means to face them.”
The also president of the Cabildo announced that Endesa has already confirmed that the energy demand on the island is guaranteed with the installed systems, as well as with the gradual recovery of the plant’s generation mechanisms.
