“I keep receiving projects that want to be located in Aragon”

Forum Sella 2024 in Villanueva de GallegoJaime Galindo

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Minister of Industry and Tourism, Jordi Hereuassured this Thursday in Zaragoza that “I do not cease to receive projects that Aragon wants to install”, which he considered “great news”, ratifying the “commitment” of the government under Pedro Sánchez to a community “that does its homework”. “We are coming to add and multiply our efforts,” he emphasized.

This was said during his speech at the opening Sella Forum 2024 will take place in Villanueva de Gallego (Zaragoza), an international conference analyzing the role of energy as a key to industry development.

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Hereu announced that The third Perte VEC appeal will be published this Friday. (electric and connected car). “It is already in the Bank of England and I hope it will be published tomorrow,” he said, with which he hopes to secure and provide final support for the project battery gigafactory that Stellantis wants to build next to its car plant in Zaragoza. “We are in the process of accelerating because we are all committed to ensuring that investments match the specific reality of companies,” he added. This aid program has already left 233 million euros in Aragon. Specific, Stellantis Figueruelas received 148.6 million.

The automobile industry, he emphasized, is “another important strategic direction” of his ministry. “We were leaders in the field of combustion, now we are faced with the task of transition,” said that to achieve the “great goal” of developing electric vehicle production lines in the coming decades, this “will be one of the greatest successes of Aragon and Spain.”

As a sign of the Spanish government’s “commitment” to Aragon, the minister recalled that it had invested more than 109 million people work in the electrical industry community, be it the gas crisis or CO2 offsets.

On decarbonization, Perth announced that next week they will begin to hear resolutions for the first line of the $1 billion program. For this call Seven Aragonese companies from sectors such as paper, engines, non-metallic minerals and agri-food were represented.

The Minister expressed satisfaction agreement between Forestalia and the Chinese company CGE to create the largest industrial self-consumption system in Spain, a project that was consolidated within the framework of this forum. This added, he added, to the “great news for Spain and Aragon” that he reported this Wednesday. Amazon Web Services (AWS) announcing a €15.7 billion investment plan into the community over the next ten years.

The tech giant’s project, he said, “is a great practical example of how The energy transition is becoming one of the greatest competitive advantages for our industry,” he emphasized.

Satisfaction with the AWS announcement

The tech giant’s project, he said, “is a great practical example of how The energy transition is becoming one of the greatest competitive advantages for our industry,” he emphasized. In this sense, he stated that “it is good to know that Aragon is not going to miss any of its opportunities.”

However, foreign investors choose this land because it “obviously” has soil, wind and sun, but also “there is talent that is emerging from our technology centers and universities.” Thanks to this confluence of elements, he noted, “this alliance arises between a large transnational corporation and this territory.”

For the head of industry, there are “two big bets” at the moment. On the one hand, there is the energy and digital transition, to which “we add” a derivative of artificial intelligence, which will designate “the way to manage the industry of the present and future.” On the other hand, reindustrialization.

“Industry is back”

The Minister delved into the second challenge with which “Europe decided to rebuild” this manufacturing sector. “Industry is coming back,” he stressed, which is “fundamental, critical and encouraging” for the sector. This activation is due, as he explained, to various reasons: from the values ​​it proclaims – “innovation and better employment, export potential and territorial development” – to those learned during the 2008 crisis and the pandemic.