Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-001027/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Vicent Marzà Ibáñez (Verts/ALE)
Aragon offers great potential for renewable energy, but the enormous pressure for the installation of large-scale wind and photovoltaic projects is destroying our landscapes (including in the regions around the Moncayo and Maestrazgo), damaging rural tourism, reducing arable land, damaging biodiversity and affecting people’s health and well-being through the acoustic impact of wind turbines.
This is the result of pressure exerted by energy oligopolies to discourage generation, self-consumption and disposal of surpluses by households and SMEs. The recent European aid for the latter has been very successful, but it has fallen short, despite Europe’s need to eliminate our energy dependence and the strategic vulnerability of a generation and supply system based on large-scale installations.
- 1.Does the Commission intend to promote mechanisms to limit the excessive concentration of huge installations in certain areas of the European Union that are already saturated, such as Aragon?
- 2.Does the Commission not believe that support should be increased for individuals and businesses of all kinds, as a strategic and security measure, to enable them to form the primary basis of a system of generation and self-consumption?
Submitted: 10.3.2025