The work for the Cáceres energy research center will be tendered in July

The works of the Iberian Energy Storage Research Center that will be located in the city of Cáceres will be tendered next July, according to the president of the Junta de Extremadura, Guillermo Fernández Vara, who has been “sure” that With this installation, a “reference” element of Extremadura in the research and development of energy storage in the future is “started”.

«The works are going to start very soon, they are going to be tendered next July. Much of the equipment and supplies have already been put out to tender, and by the end of next year we will be in a position to start up this center that we are very proud of,” Vara said at a press conference this Thursday in Mérida together with to the Minister of Science and Innovation of the Government of Spain, Diana Morant, who recalled that said center will have a joint investment of 74 million euros between the national and Extremaduran Executives.

On this point, Fernández Vara highlighted the fact that the Government of Spain has decided that it will be in Extremadura where what is going to be “the first” research center for the “new economy, the new society and the a new way of living that has to do with the present, with everything that is happening”, alluding to energy prices.

Thus, he has defended that centers such as the one in Cáceres will help to “solve” the “problem” of the price of electricity, in a way linked to “everything that has to do with climate change”.

With this, after underlining that we are facing “a new time”, he stated that the aforementioned Cáceres center “is the beginning, of course, for Extremadura of an enormous opportunity to become a reference point for the green and digital industry”.

In turn, Diana Morant has defended that the Storage Research Center of Cáceres will serve to face “the global challenge of humanity to achieve cleaner, cheaper, more sustainable energy, which cares more for the planet”, and also the challenge that Europe, Spain and Portugal are countries “with strategic autonomy in the face of the threats that we are experiencing in recent times and that are sure to come”.

«Today we are here writing the future of Extremadura, of Spain, of Portugal and I am sure that the future of Europe and of humanity, because this research center is going to discover future technologies that we still do not know about to store energy and provide energy to citizens and to present and future generations”, highlighted the minister.

At this point, he stressed that the Iberian Center for Energy Storage Research in Cáceres will involve a joint investment of 74 million euros between the Government of Spain and the Junta de Extremadura and will generate 150 jobs for researchers, professionals and technicians from “the highest levels of knowledge and talent in the country and abroad”.

Portuguese collaboration

In turn, the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal, Elvira Fortunato, highlighted that with the presentation of the Energy Storage Research Center of Cáceres «today history is being made in Extremadura, in Spain, in Portugal, in Europe and for the world”, through a “unique” initiative in which “two countries come together, join forces, to solve common problems”.

In this regard, he stated that one of the “priorities” of the Government of Portugal is to “strengthen” collaboration with Spain in matters of Science and Technology and Innovation, because “only together, as a team, can we go further” in the current situation that is lived worldwide.

Along these lines, he advocated continuing to work to “have a better, greener planet” and “better for future generations.”

Finally, asked if Portugal will collaborate financially in the Cáceres center, Minister Diana Morant said that the “formula” to “materialize” the collaboration is being studied.

His counterpart from Portugal, in turn, has indicated that “there will be a Portuguese co-participation of 50 percent of the Spanish participation in the functioning and operation over the years.”