The director of Organization and Institutional Relations of the company admits that they have almost recovered the levels of 2019 and, that with the ERTE “forgotten”, they work with “reasonable” perspectives.
José Ignacio Zudaire, Director of Organization and Institutional Relations of Petronor, has ensured that the company does not foresee make stops for him rising energy prices, despite the fact that the energy cost represents 70% of its operating account. In fact, he admits that they have almost recovered the levels of 2019 and, that with the ERTE “forgotten”, they work with “reasonable” perspectives.
In an interview with the “Boulevard” program on Radio Euskadi, Zudaire explained that the company based in Muskiz (Bizkaia) lives from mobility: “If the world moves, if you move by car, for us it is a moment in the one that we can function. At this moment, mobility has been reactivated, although not at 2019 levels, but there has been a very important recovery. ”
The Petronor executive has also referred to the project of the Basque Hydrogen Corridor, which thanks to its “early birth”, is already a “mature and competitive” project at European level. “We are in the Champions League, in Europe (…) We have great competitors like Germany, but we will reach the last rounds, that’s for sure,” he predicted. In this sense, he affirmed that the European recovery funds will be “an accelerator” of the project, and will help to achieve the objectives five years ahead of schedule, “around 2030”, according to Zudaire.
In this sense, Zudaire has highlighted that the company is betting on other projects such as hydrogen in the face of the “decline” of the fossil fuel sector that allow absorbing the job that “yes or yes” they are going to lose in that section. “Our goal is to keep the people of Petronor. To grow much more? In the first years it will be difficult,” he confessed.
Finally, it has asked the institutions to opt for the “technological neutrality and that they do not bet only on electrification “, that is to say, that they do not bet on a single technology. In addition, questioned by the end of combustion vehicles, Zudaire considers that the problem” is not the combustion engine, but the fuel . Let’s not kill the combustion engine; Let’s try to change the fuel: instead of putting gasoline on it, which has Co2, we are going to put biofuel or synthetic zero-emission fuels in it and you will have a car exactly like today’s but with 0 emissions. ”
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