Portugal challenges Spain with a plan to attract renewable investors hours before the 'face to face' between Sánchez and Costa

Portugal challenges Spain with a plan to attract renewable investors.

The Portuguese Prime Minister,

, has announced this Wednesday a package of measures to

in the country.

The Portuguese offensive catches Spain with the wrong foot, in full time trial to avoid the death of thousands of renewable megawatts because of the administrative cap.

Costa has made his strategy known

on the occasion of the summit on the new Barcelona-Marseille green hydrogen corridor to be held on Friday in Alicante.

The Portuguese authorities have been working for months on different packages of measures to simplify all the licensing processes for renewables, above all, the

.

The objective, according to Costa himself, is "to increase the installed green capacity to strengthen security and national energy autonomy."

In accordance with the latest measures approved, Portugal has decided

as long as they meet a series of characteristics, in order to

On several occasions, the Portuguese Prime Minister has focused on excessive paperwork and has defended that simplification is of the utmost importance for sustainability:

.

A whole declaration of intent that could lead investment and energy funds to divert their attention to Portugal to the detriment of Spain.

Focus on environmental processing

Although Spain continues to be a priority destination for renewable investors, the accused bottleneck in the processing of permits has

under the wing .

This is the capacity added by those projects that could perish suddenly on January 25.

That day expires one of the temporary milestones established by law in Spain so that developers who already have access permits to the network, accreditation granted by Red Eléctrica, accredit obtaining the

.

Teresa Ribera

, Minister for the Ecological Transition, has been reluctant to extend the milestones set and has moved internally, calling on her technicians to prioritize the processing of renewable permits over other fronts, as far as possible, as this medium advanced. .

The idea is to arrive next January 25 with the least number of pending applications.

Much of the blockage, however, has not been generated in the ministry, but in the autonomies.

The CCAAs are responsible for those projects with less than

of capacity.

Each autonomy applies its own recipe and the processing rates are up to

from each other.

The situation has generated deep discomfort among the green employers, who have been pressing Ecological Transition for weeks to give in and extend the deadlines.

Galán supports Costa's plan

In parallel, Costa has already defined the steps to follow to adapt the Portuguese Administration to the growing appetite for renewables, in order to manage the flood of requests from investors.

The Portuguese Prime Minister launched this announcement from

's Alcochete (Lisbon) solar plant , accompanied by

, president of the Spanish electricity company.

The good harmony between Galán and Costa has been revealed on many occasions.

Last July, during the inauguration of the new Támega hydroelectric plant, Galán praised the

of Portugal and the consolidated

between the company and the Portuguese president, while anticipating that the energy company would double its investment in the development of clean energy in the neighboring country over the next few years, to

.

Everything indicates that Portugal will compete with Spain for green leadership, driven by the new measures announced by Costa, who has become a key partner for the Pedro Sánchez government in the current energy crisis.

Politeness, does not remove the brave.

The Portuguese Prime Minister has rolled out the red carpet for green funds.

It remains to be seen if Moncloa follows in his wake.

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