The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, needs the nuclear power plants who wants to close to respect the commitment of 3% of public deficit who holds with Europe. Concretely, the operation of these energy operators offers the State around 1 billion euros in taxes and 600 million through the Enresa priceaccording to industry sources at OKDIARIO. With this tariff, the companies that own the factories cover the management of radioactive waste of spent fuel from nuclear power plants produced by the public company Enresa.
So, in the same way that Sánchez needs he extraordinary tax on banks and the electricity companies have a deficit of 3%, disrupting the nuclear companies would cause a billion dollar waste in the public accounts.
However, maintaining these high taxes would be enough to end nuclear energy in Spain. Solvent sources in the sector assure this newspaper that the high amount of taxes they have to pay leads them to be less and less profitable and that businesses can promote voluntary closure without the need for the executive to order it.
Thus, nuclear companies consider that not only is it necessary for the Government to reverse its closure policy for their survival, but that a institutional pact so that there is constant and lasting support.
On average, installations of this type of energy pay 28 euros for each megawatt/hour they produce, while in countries like France They only have to pay 4 euros MW/h.
Sánchez’s taxes on nuclear power plants
In state taxes, companies pay 18 euros MW/h, and to this is added the regional tax. This brings plants like Almaraz to contribute 1.3 million euros per day in taxessomething the industry considers “unsustainable”.
The fact that they had to pay 28 euros per MW/ha led to the cessation of production. The same sector sources indicate that, given the skill existing in the windelectricity prices reached at one point 0 euros per MW/h.
This was the case for example on September 7, price of light It was free for seven hours. In these circumstances, and given that nuclear power plants have to pay to produce, it was not profitable for them to produce energy and some sectors were forced to stop the machines for a while.
Thus, the high taxes they have to pay are presented as one of the main threats to the sector, even beyond the intentions of the Sánchez de Sánchez government. take down all the plants nuclear weapons of Spain. If this budgetary pressure continues like this, “Almaraz will close its doors in 2027,” lament sources.
The intentions of the Spanish executive to close these generators are also contrary to the decisions taken by all countries of the world. In fact, Spain is the only country with nuclear power plants currently considering closure. The others wish to maintain or even plan to build more complexes.
As OKDIARIO progressed, there are examples such as Poland. The Spanish company Ferrovial is building the country’s first nuclear power plant there thanks to an agreement that will also allow it to carry out similar work in Ukraine.
For his part, Germany Shutting down power plants was also considered, but he backtracked and reconsidered that idea. And it is that the European Union He has also changed his mind about these energies, since he now considers them to be Green and this can help fight against climate change. Another example is that of Francewhich, according to some sources, “wears its nuclear power proudly”.
In short, while the world is banking on nuclear energy to successfully complete the energy transition and put an end to CO2 emissionsSánchez’s Spain remains determined to dismantle it, by work or by omission, because, at that moment, if the Spanish power plants do not close by direct order, they will do so through the high costs caused by the fiscal pressure of the socialist executive.
