Adrian Delia sagte heute, dass Energie im Rahmen des PN so billig sein wird, dass keine Subventionen erforderlich sind. Menschen "muss nicht um Hilfe betteln" weil die Preise an der Quelle niedrig sein werden.
Cool. Aber Maltas Strom gehört bereits jetzt zu den günstigsten in der EU, und das nur, weil die Regierung fast eine Milliarde Euro an Subventionen investiert hat, um dies so zu halten. Deshalb verspricht Delia Preise, die unter dem liegen, was wir derzeit zahlen nach all diese Subventionen. Und seine Erklärung dafür? "Wir haben Vorschläge zu alternativen Energien." Das ist buchstäblich alles, was er gesagt hat.
Malta importiert sein Gas. Der Interkonnektorpreis wird von den europäischen Großhandelsmärkten festgelegt. Malta kontrolliert nichts davon.
Das ist der Fluch der PN. Seit über einem Jahrzehnt in der Opposition und immer noch der Meinung, dass Wähler Slogans wichtiger sind als Inhalte. Keine Details, keine Kostenberechnung, kein Plan. Nur Stimmung.
Und dann fragen sich manche, warum sie immer wieder verlieren.
PN promises cheaper energy without subsidies. Someone help me understand this.
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If memory serves isn’t the LNG bought from some country ending on Stan bought from some shady middleman at an inflated price as opposed to being bought directly from the vendor.
I seem to recall the Times running several
Pieces about that at the same time as the 17 Black scandal.
Get rid of whomever has their hands in the till on tha deal and prices could come down. Thats not going to be the only, let’s call them ‘inefficiencies’.
There are innovative solutions for sure that are unique to our country. Can think of two: underwater current turbines, and hydrogen generation from sea water. I can’t vouch for either solution and neither can I vouch for the PN but I believe that there are very capable local engineers who can come up with solutions.
The sun, the wind, waves those are all cheap ways of energy. Yes it is possible.
With the right solar panels + battery setup, you could probably bring your bill down to zero, no matter what the rates are. I paid less than €50 for electricity last year, and I live in one of the least sunny countries in Europe, with some of the most expensive electricity in Europe. And that includes central heating in winter.
So if there had to be a proper drive to get people to install solar panels and for the government to do the same on public buildings, Malta would be mostly isolated from the cost of fuel crisis without the need for unsustainable recurrent subsidies
I think you’re missing the bigger picture of what he’s actually saying. Sure, prices are ‚low‘ now, but it’s artificial. We’re literally using our own tax money to subsidise our own bills. It’s a loop that’s costing us a billion euros, money that could be going into hospitals or schools instead.
The point of ‚cheap at source‘ is about shifting the strategy. If we actually invested heavily in offshore renewables and a second interconnector, the marginal cost of producing that energy drops way down. We wouldn’t need to ‚beg‘ for subsidies because the energy would actually be cheap to produce, not just subsidized to look that way.
Also, the current monopoly isn’t doing us any favours. Liberalising the market and letting the private sector compete in renewables would drive prices down naturally. It’s not just ‚vibes,‘ it’s about moving away from a system where we’re 100% dependent on volatile gas prices and government handouts.
Simple: Never ever trust what any politician says, but especially so over the coming four weeks.
It’s only the first day of the election, and you’re already dismissing a potential plan that could eliminate the massive debts the government is taking on to subsidise electricity prices? Are you sure the issue isn’t your narrow view or inability to recognise the failure of this government in building sustainable energy solutions?
May I remind you that the interconnector the PN government commissioned 13 years ago accounts to 1/3 of the country’s electricity supply, and saved the country from total collapse when the LNG storage unit failed multiple times during summer.
Yes they can. We are the only country in europe that won’t publish at which price we are buying oil and gas. Guess where the subsidies (our taxes) are going.