Today's meeting at the Presidential Palace on the price of electricity is unfortunately ashes in the eyes of consumers about the government's serious responsibilities in the energy and electricity sectors, says Achilleas Dimitriadis, candidate for the Presidency of the Republic.
In a written statement, Demetriades says today's announcement is full of "wills" ahead of the next presidential elections. His ministers, all this time, have been operating without a strategy to put in place the necessary infrastructure for Cyprus to make a timely shift to Green and Sustainable development.
The failures, he added, are concrete and among others, he said that the AHK still runs on fuel oil and is accompanied by contradictory government decisions, natural gas has not come for so many years and by the time a project is implemented, it will have become unprofitable in the meantime, the development of renewable energy is limited, while the funding from the Pollutant Trading System, instead of being used for Green Development, ended up in the state budget along with the additional VAT.
This is why Cyprus needs a serious strategy to get the infrastructure done, using the money from the Recovery and Resilience Fund. Reducing prices is not done with presidential "favours" but with institutions that work so that the market works properly.
With plans, he adds, to develop renewable energy in the photovoltaic sector and with supervision and transparency in tenders for the benefit of the consumer, we can implement a different strategy for energy and prices.
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