MADRID, 10 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -
The Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism has granted 31 million euros in aid to 488 electro-intensive companies to offset charges on the energy bill, as reported this Tuesday by the Department headed by Héctor Gómez.
The proposed beneficiaries of the 2023 aid - to offset 2022 costs - carry out their activity mainly in Catalonia, which is the autonomous community with the highest percentage of aid, with 23.2% of the total, followed by Andalusia (14 .6%), Basque Country (10.1%), Valencian Community (8%) and Asturias (7.3%).
By sector, the largest amount corresponds to the paper and cardboard manufacturing sector, with 11.5%, followed by the iron and steel sector (11%).
Industry has detailed that the objective of this compensation mechanism for electro-intensive consumers is to avoid relocation and the transfer of industrial production to other countries.
For this reason, it has published the proposed provisional resolution of the Mechanism for compensation of charges attributable to the financing of specific remuneration for renewables and high-efficiency cogeneration and for additional financing in non-peninsular territories.
Private companies that own a supply point or installation, whatever their legal form, and have the electro-intensive consumer certification, which they carry out in each of the facilities or supply points for which they apply, can benefit from this aid. the subsidy for one or more activities in the sectors listed in the annex to Royal Decree 1106/2020, of December 15.
The acting Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Héctor Gómez, has insisted on the importance of articulating a series of short and long-term measures that give confidence and certainty to the Spanish industry in the face of the rise in energy prices and to respond to the socioeconomic consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
He has also highlighted that the Government thus responds to the needs of the electro-intensive industry "at a time of industrial revolution in Spain that can mark the economic future of the country."
