PP asks to compensate the cap on gas to companies that use cogeneration

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The National Deputy Secretary for Regional and Local Coordination of the PP, Pedro Rollán, this Saturday asked the Government to also apply compensation for the gas cap to companies that use cogeneration in their processes, such as Portugal has done.

Rollán, who has offered a press conference together with the president of the PP of Palencia, Ángeles Armisén, before the celebration of the Provincial Intermunicipal Meeting in Palencia, has warned about the “especially worrying” situation of companies in sectors such as ceramics, paper, chemical, meat, automobile or metal.

Some companies in these sectors have already announced that they will stop their activity due to lack of competitiveness and that “they are headed for closure,” he warned.

“The Government cannot say that it is not aware of this agony,” assured Rollán, who explained that these companies have specific cogeneration plants attached to their production because they generate heat and also energy.

In this sense, the also PP senator has affirmed that by excluding these companies from the compensation of the gas cap, the Government is leading some 600 industries on which 200,000 direct jobs depend to a “dead end” and has argued that “the lack of competitiveness is equal to the destruction of jobs”.

He also recalled that the EU has included in its recommendations that the cap on gas can be applied to high-efficiency cogeneration companies, and has stated that the Government “has a moral obligation to carry out this extraordinary and urgent measure because companies can’t stop.

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