K. Mitsotakis: The government has supported and will continue to support energy consumers

“The first and foremost concern of the government since the beginning of our term is to ensure the energy adequacy and autonomy of the country with emphasis on” greening “our energy mix with the Renewable Energy Sources that we have in abundance in our country,” he said in a statement. in the newspaper “Real News” the Prime Minister K. Mitsotakis.

He points out: “At the same time, however, we are responding and adapting to the current situation and fighting since the onset of the global energy crisis to mitigate its impact on household and business energy tariffs. “The over-revenues that arise in the markets of RES and the auctions of pollutants. To date, horizontal but also targeted – to the most vulnerable – aid amounting to 4 billion euros have been given”.

Regarding the sanctions against Russia by the EU, the Prime Minister stressed that they are important and have already brought results, however “We must be very careful so that the measures we take do not end up hurting us, the EU countries more. “than harming Russia, as the European economy can not fully and directly replace Russian gas from other suppliers.”

He added: “It is clear in Europe that we need to get rid of Russian gas as soon as possible. But it is also clear that this is not going to happen overnight. That is why, as a country, we have drawn up short-term energy efficiency plan, but also long-term energy self-sufficiency plan, based on Renewable Energy Sources, but I am well aware and I fully share that the big problem right now for households and businesses is the cost of energy, a problem that will last. It is something that concerns the whole of Europe and that is why I have personally fought for a pan-European response, we have asked the President of the Commission to talk to all the important “players” in the market and to propose solutions, interventions, including the choice of a ceiling in the wholesale market of natural gas “.

The Prime Minister reiterated that “the government has supported and will continue to support energy consumers through a subsidy scheme. I have said that, in the absence of a European response to this problem, the government is ready to take significant additional measures. to absorb as much of the increase in electricity bills as possible, exhausting budgetary margins.I will announce the package in May and, even if not adopted by the “June. We are exhausting the full range of possibilities that the Budget gives us to support our fellow citizens in a socially just way. We have been doing this since the beginning of the crisis and we will continue to do this.”

Source: AMPE

Source: Capital

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