This news article was originally written in Spanish. It has been automatically translated for your convenience. Reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate translation, however, no automated translation is perfect nor is it intended to replace a human translator. The original article in Spanish can be viewed at La revisión del Plan de Renovables estará lista en el primer trimestre de 2005

The revision of the renewable Plan will be ready in the first quarter of 2005

28/12/2004

on December 28, 2004

The Minister of industry, tourism and trade, José Montilla, ahead of the review of the Plan of the promotion of renewable energies carried out his Department already is "well under way and that will be ready in the first quarter of 2005, at the latest".

During the opening of a Conference on wind energy, organized by Club dialogues for democracy, Montilla justified the need to revise the objectives set out in the Plan that the PP Government adopted in 1999 before the "high" energy demand increase in recent yearsthat makes incumplible the ultimate goal that, by 2010, the 12 per cent of the energy required by the country comes from renewable sources.

In principle, the Government intends to raise the current goal of 13,000 megawatts (MW) wind power to the 20,000 MW installed by 2010, 53 percent more. In the case of biofuels, the Institute for diversification and energy saving (IDAE) has proposed to industry that triple the objective of the Plan, so that you reach the two million tonnes of oil at the end of the decade equivalent.