Light drowns companies, which consume 60% of energy production

There is much talk that the rise in the price of light has an impact on household bills, but energy consumption data shows that there is a much more harmed group: industry.While only 6.5% of all the energy consumed in 2019 nationwide was destined.Thus it follows from the data provided by the National Institute of Statistics (INE) in its latest report on the account of the physical flows of energy.

The detailed analysis of the data reveals that of all the electrical energy consumed, 69.67% was used in some sector of the economy;Instead, only 25% went to homes.The percentages are fired in the case of natural gas, the other resource that continues to rise in an unstoppable way.Almost all of its production was used to meet business demand (92.13%);In contrast, its use among families did not reach 5%.

Of the total energy used by some economic branch, 55.9% were allocated to the extractive and manufacturing industry;30.6%, to the energy sector, water and waste, and 10.3%, to services and construction.Its distribution explains why the escalation of the cost of energy, particularly gas and electricity, has become a headache for much of the Spanish industry.The pockets that are suffering most are those of sectors such as metal, chemist and steel, whose production costs depend largely on the price of energy.

The Association of Companies with Great Energy Consumption (AEGE) estimates that if the light normally reaches 60% of the total costs for these industries, now that percentage exceeds 75%, which makes the continuity of some companies unfeasible and puts inRisk economic recovery.

La luz ahoga a las empresas, que consumen el 60% de la producción energética

The rise is undermining its competitiveness against rivals such as France and Germany, where the inflationary effect of electricity has not affected companies so much because they pay less taxes and receive more state compensation.According to the association calculations, as of November 15 the industry paid the megavatio hour at 113.03 euros, 64.86 euros more expensive than in France and 35.88 euros more than in Germany.

If the trend continues, 2022 will become a “Calvary” for the sector.This is what Vaticina Fernando Soto, director of AEE.The employer's leader recalls that since before this year, electrintenders already displaced the consumption of peak hours to Las ValleThe megavatio hour ".

The loud rates of both natural gas and electricity require, according to urgent government measures.What the manager asks to the Government is that the same practices implement as France and Germany, which include compensation much larger than the Spanish to deal with cost overruns due to CO2 emissions and a guaranteed percentage of the nuclear park at low cost.The administration already approved in September a package of measures to mitigate this increase, but from AEE.

To this is added another problem: the lack of competitive prices by electricity.According to Aee, none of its associates have received an offer that helps deal with the escalation of the price of light.Given the situation, the industry asks the authorities for short -term measures, such as the auctions of the remembered (renewable energies, cogeneration and waste) and the exemption of 80% of the transport toll.

Emisiones de CO2 por sector

Spain issued 274.6 million tons of greenhouse gases in 2020.Of that total, the manufacturing industry concentrated 25.8%, households 20.9% and agriculture, livestock, forestry and fishing 18.2%.This is stated by the INE in its latest environmental accounts report, published in November.

As every year, carbon dioxide (CO2) was the main polluting gas;It monopolized 77.7% of the total emissions.The manufacturing industry generated 31% of the entire Spanish CO2 and was placed as the most harmful branch for the environment.Second, although five points below (25.67%), the families stood.Together they generated 120.6 million tons of this gas.

Despite the high figures, Spain reduced its pollution rate by 15.6% compared to 2019.