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  • Castilla y León Zamora mobilizes against Iberdrola for emptying a swamp in the midst of escalating electricity prices

Iberdrola has defended that the Ricobayo reservoir (Zamora) be emptied when "from the point of view of the market it is interesting to be more competitive" as a way to curb the use of "much more expensive" energy sources and

thus contribute together with renewables

to "Don't let the price skyrocket" of light.

The institutional delegate of Iberdrola in Castilla y León,

Miguel Calvo Calleja

, explained in an interview with Efe that since it is one of the large regulation reservoirs, the function of this reservoir, whose emptying has generated discomfort in the area, is to "collect water when it is abundant and use it when it is not."

For this reason, it has compared this hydraulic infrastructure with large

batteries that can be used when most interesting

to replace other sources of higher cost energy production.

He has denied that this great Zamorano reservoir has been emptied as denounced by the surrounding municipalities and has specified that its current level, which is around

11% of its capacity

, represents a volume of impounded water as large as that jointly added by the Zamorano reservoirs of Castro and Villalcampo on the Duero River.

Furthermore, in the last 25 years a similar level has been reached a

dozen times

, so "historically it is not so strange" that the current level is reached, as it already happened in 2017.

The head of Iberdrola in Castilla y León has also attributed the drop in the level in Ricobayo to

"unpredictable variables

.

"

Among them he mentioned the

rise experienced by the price of gas

and the weather, with a month of February that rained a lot, which was followed by "the driest spring in the last 30 years".

Calvo Calleja has pointed out that Iberdrola is dedicated to managing a large infrastructure such as Ricobayo's that "

is designed so that what is happening happens

, to a greater or lesser extent" and whose management falls within the "concession model" of the reservoir.

Upset among neighbors

Regarding the discomfort generated in the municipalities of the area by the low level and the media interest that it has aroused, he has opined that the fact that the price of electricity is daily news causes there to be a

"special awareness"

with environmental issues energy that "other years have gone unnoticed as normal."

From an environmental point of view, the Iberdrola delegate in the Community has highlighted that this year "

intervention and monitoring

efforts have doubled

" and the water quality analyzes reflect "fully normal" levels.

Iberdrola also maintains constant information with the

Muelas del Pan

City Council

, to which Ricobayo belongs and which has the only informed supply outlet, so that there is no supply problem.

The delegate in Castilla y León assured that Iberdrola influences the Ricobayo environment "in a

positive economic and social way

" as an actor in the area "in terms of employment and taxes."

It has also promised to "mature" in which issues it can "collaborate more actively", once the current

"situation of tension"

passes

and "things return to their normal course

.

"

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