Teresa Ribera, Third Vice President and Minister of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, closely follows the automotive sector. “It is an industry that cannot miss the train of transformation that the global penetration of electric car. We joined the process late, but the Government wants to accompany the sector, with which we have a very fluid relationship. We will encourage the installation of charging points». Ribera supports the construction of a large battery plant, a project disputed by several regions in Spain. «There are several proposals being studied at the moment and the car houses are analyzing where the best industrial ally is. There is likely to be more than one gigafactory in the next few years».
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The Government also wants to attend to the needs of the large energy-intensive industry, weighed down by the price of electricity and which calls for regulatory singularity. This will be taken into consideration by Congress. “We have to see what needs to be covered in another way and what is the smartest way to do it. We are in an initial phase of evaluation to be able to have criteria on how to respond appropriately”, explains the vice president, who has been in Barcelona this week and has visited the headquarters of Torres Cellars and has participated in a debate on sustainability together with the economist Mariana Mazzucato,
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