The European Commission sees them as necessary for the transition to clean energy, despite the rejection caused by its initial draft among its expert advisers and in countries such as Spain.
The European Commission has confirmed this Wednesday that it will maintain nuclear energy and natural gas within the classification of “green” investments because it sees them as necessary for the transition to clean energy, a classification that it maintains despite the rejection that its initial draft caused among its expert advisers and in countries like Spain.
The Community Executive assumes that neither gas nor nuclear energy are climate-neutral energies, nor are they renewable, but defends their role as “transition activities” to achieve the objective of a decarbonized economy in 2050, a concept included in the second paragraph of the project presented.
Given the reservations of the platform of experts that issued a critical report and the rejection of several countries, including Spain, Brussels defends that the delegated act adopted by the College of Commissioners sets “strict conditions” for gas and nuclear energy, time that foresees sanctions for companies that do not comply. However, it disregards the experts’ recommendations to reduce the emission levels set at 270 grams of CO2/kWh for gas plants to 100 grams of CO2/kWh.
From now on, a period of four months is opened, extendable for two more, after which it will come into force unless it is overthrown by a simple majority of the European Parliament or an inverse majority of 20 countries that add up to at least 65% of the population of The EU. Although France and Germany support the project, Spain, Austria, Denmark and Luxembourg are against it.
Source: Eitb
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