KINAL for energy crisis: Benefits are a necessary but not the only measure

After first bitterly refuting its estimates of a “temporary energy crisis”, the government is trying to cover up its misguided and contingent interventions through subsidy funds, while consumers do not know what they are really paying for electricity, the Movement for Change said in a statement. government announcements on the package to deal with the effects of the energy crisis.

“Any support for vulnerable households and businesses is necessary and a key policy priority. The problem is that the subsidies that are constantly being announced are not enough to pay the ‘inflated’ bills from households and businesses.

And all this is happening, with the Prime Minister saying nothing, neither about the increases nor about the entrapment of the country in his strategy, which “premiums” the increases in energy costs.

If the government had allocated 1.4 billion euros in subsidies to enable households to produce their own energy, as we then suggested, today more than half a million citizens would save 50% of their annual consumption, every year, for 30 years. .

If the government encouraged integrated energy upgrades of buildings, but also citizens, farmers and businesses to produce the clean energy they need with subsidized photovoltaic panels or shares in energy communities, the situation would be much better today.

The country may have one last chance to use the resources of the Recovery Fund to tackle energy poverty and promote energy democracy. “Unfortunately, the government wastes it every day and the citizens pay the bill,” KINAL concludes.