Sanchez defends renewables and challenges companies to assume the cost of expanding nuclear without public money | The express country

The president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, went out to defend the energy model based on renewables during a tense control session in Congress focused on the mass blackout that Spain suffered on April 28.

A little context. After the blackout, Red Eléctrica pointed to the instability of the renewables as a possible cause, and PP and Vox used it as a weapon to demand that the government delay the closure of nuclear power plants in Spain (planned between 2027 and 2035).

• Sanchez has accused them to defend the interests of the great energy owners of these centrals.

And opposes investing in them with public money. The president has assured that if energy agreed to extend the useful life of nuclear, the government will study their plans, but they will be the ones who must pay the costs.

Is the cause of the blackout already known? Not yet, but has insisted that the origin did not come from green energies, since Spain was “operating with renewable levels below previous days.”

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