The incumplimiento of the directives of energetic efficiency prejudices to the reflation of the economy
20 January 2014
The new conviction of the Cutting of Justice of the EU to Spain by no transponer entirely the Directive 2002/91/CE of energetic efficiency of buildings after eleven years shows once again that the incumplimiento of the European directives in power goes to prejudice no only to the consumers but also to the real-estate sector and of the construction and to the economy. “The citizens will not be able to reduce his receipts of light, the promoters will have difficulties to face projects of rehabilitation and finally, Spain loses the opportunity to create until 500.000 new employments in 2020 promoting the energetic efficiency”, confirms
“Of the reading of the sentence can check the invalid will of the distinct Governments to adopt the necessary legal disposals and give fulfillment to the European aims of energetic saving in the sector of the edificación. It understands like this better the vote against of the Government in October of 2012 to the Directive 2012/27/EU of energetic efficiency arguing, between other reasons, that the saving of power would be a penalty to the Spanish economy”, explains García Breva.
Great Spain incumplimientos of European directives of power, since the past year was warned by the European Commission of a new demand in front of the European Cutting of Justice by the incumplimiento of the Directive 2010/31/EU of energetic efficiency of buildings, that substitutes to the one of 2002, whose term of transposition finalised in January of 2013. This directive establishes the obligation for the States members to elaborate national plans of buildings of consumption of power almost invalid, with intermediate aims for 2015, so that in 2020 the new buildings and the rehabilitation of the existent, and in 2018 the public buildings, do with criteria of minimum consumption of power with autoconsumo, as it defines in his article two.
The community norms force to all the powers of the State, executive, judicial and legislative. His reiterated incumplimiento, as it is the case of the efficiency and energetic certification of buildings, would deserve an explanation since it affects to the juridical hygiene and to the financiabilidad of the investments in energetic efficiency of buildings.
Gives the circumstance that the new tolls established in the electrical reform approved by the Ministry of Industry penalise the saving of power and the investments in energetic efficiency and incentivan the greater consumption through the rise of the fixed part of the receipt of the light, the descent of the variable part that measures the consumption and a discriminatory toll to the autoconsumo.
The rule that the Government has approved in this last year no only breaks the European directives of power but when preventing the energetic saving does not allow that the final consumers can reduce his energetic costs by means of integral projects of energetic efficiency or of rehabilitation of buildings. For Javier García Breva, “identify the saving of power with less income of the electrical system is contrary to the aims and norms of the European Union and will bring future demands against Spain”.
“Reactivate the sector of the construction by means of the energetic efficiency of the buildings has to be a priority. This is the aim of the Ministry responsible for public works whose Law 8/2013 of rehabilitation, regeneration and urban renewal bases in the energetic efficiency of buildings and the autoconsumo, considering therefore the energetic rehabilitation like the base for the reflation of the economy and of the employment”, concludes this expert in energetic politics.
