translated from Spanish: Opposition criticizes AMLO government’s commitment to ‘dirty energy’

Opposition lawmakers launched questions and criticism of the federal government’s energy policy during the appearance on Monday of the industry’s secretary, Rocío Nahle.
Panist Senator Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz considered the actions and discourse of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s government against renewable energy “unforgivable” a couple of days after the federal representative accused past administrations of using the “sophism” of clean energy to benefit individuals.
“The Agreement issuing the Reliability, Safety, Continuity and Quality Policy in the National Electricity System is based on instiling Mexicans in fear by lying about the impact of renewable energy on the electricity system. Renewable energy sources are indeed intermittent, but this government wants to make you believe that intermittency is synonymous with unreliable and that’s totally false,” Gálvez said.
Renewable energy has been shown to be cheaper today than the cost of generating conventional energies, which include coal, fuel oil and natural gas, the panista senator insisted.
“Why do you strive to be the secretary of dirty energy?” she questioned the secretary, in addition to questioning “the co-optation of regulatory bodies” by placing stalwarts despite their inability, and unilateral changes in rules and operating systems that scare away domestic and foreign investment, “just when it is needed most to revive the economy.”
At the time, Priista Senator Jorge Carlos Ramírez Marín expressed “his concern about the lack of clean energy plants and questioned the federal government what it does to protect the population from emissions and the risk posed by continuing to consume fossil fuels, which is accredited, has a high negative impact on health.”
Priista Senator Beatriz Paredes Rangel spoke of “finding alternative options” to complement the use of gasoline, with the possibility of taking advantage of ethanol, which would also give a boost to the Mexican pipe field.
In response, Secretary Nahle argued that the federal government “works to obtain energy self-sufficiency and phase out the import of fuels.”
Support and rescue of state-produced enterprises, Petróleos Mexicanos and the Federal Electricity Commission, he said, “constitute an essential part of the country’s public and economic policy” to ensure national security.
Regarding renewable energy, according to a Senate communiqué, he noted that three long-term auctions were held in the previous government, which this administration has respected and supported in its entirety.  
Mexico, he said, “will fully meet international commitments to reach 35% of electricity from clean energy. From September 2019 to June 2020, he added, three wind and solar technology generation projects came into operation and began commercial operation while six other projects initiated operational testing.” 
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