Mira Amaral says that "electric monster" has its origin in the government of José Sócrates

Former Energy Minister, Mira Amaral, defended on Wednesday that "the disaster of the electrical system began in 2007, when the government of José Sócrates, with Manuel Pinho, decided to go ahead. install 8,000 megawatts of paid wind energy. "

Mira Amaral called the introduction of new sources of renewable energy, when he opened electricity production to the private sector, thus ending the monopoly of EDP's production. to stimulate other producers, especially from renewable sources ", which, he stressed, confers" the political, moral and technical authority to criticize the created electric monster ".

" The system disaster Current Portuguese electricity began in 2007, when the government of José Sócrates, with Manuel Pinho as Minister of Economy, decided to install 8,000 MW of wind energy for 15-20 According to Mira Amaral , "the government of Socrates forgot that there was already a lot of power contracted by the CAE [Contratos de Aquisição de Energia] and the CMEC [Custos de Manutenção do Equilíbrio Contratual]which ensured the payment of the fixed costs of the power plants that started working at the Intermittent support and began to install r duplicate wind capacity to the existing capacity covered by the PPAs and CMEC. "

" Of the 8,000 MW of intermittent wind turbines, there has been up to now about 5,300 MW, which is much higher than the 3,500 MW of energy consumed at the Portugal during the night, "he said Luís Mira Amaral was, between 1987 and 1995, the Minister of Industry and Energy, at the moment when the CAE emerged, a figure created to "attract investment", applied to two private power plants EPAs applied to EDP are "subsequent" to their departure from the government, he said.

"APP at EDP Headquarters do not date from 1996, but from the government of António Guterres, "he said.