The Energy Minister’s admissions confirm AKEL

 

26 May 2023, AKEL C.C. Press Office, Nicosia

Yesterday’s admissions by the Minister of Energy confirm everything AKEL has been saying for years. For ten years now, the previous government wasn’t giving the tools it should have given to the semi-governmental Cyprus Electricity Authority (AHK), whilst restricting and undermining it. The result is that Cypriot society is paying the consequences every two months with exorbitant electricity bills, at the same time as the country has ended up facing an energy sufficiency problem.

The policy proposed by AKEL should belatedly be listened to. All the tools and weapons should be given to the Cyprus Electricity Authority to invest in natural gas and green production, to develop know-how, thus drastically bringing down the cost of electricity.

Ensuring the country’s energy sufficiency and reducing the price of electricity should be the government’s top and urgent tasks.