The Government appoints Sara Aages in new Secretary of State for Energy
The Council of Ministers has appointed Sara Aagesen Muñoz, who coordinated the work of the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan (PNIEC), Secretary of State for Energy in substitution of José Domínguez Abascal, as announced by the Minister of Finance and spokesperson on Friday of the Government, María Jesús Montero.
Aagesen is a chemical engineer from the Complutense University of Madrid and in 2018 he directed, coordinated and defined the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan 2021-2030 and also the long-term strategy to 2050.
She has been a negotiator for the Spanish delegation in the United Nations Framework Commission against Climate Change and the intergovernmental group of experts on climate change since 2002.
In addition, she has participated as a national expert in various working groups of the European Commission and in the monitoring and evaluation of community regulatory development.
From 2002 to 2018 he has developed his professional career at the Office of Climate Change, linked to the action for climate and energy transition.
Aagesen replaces José Domínguez Abascal in the Secretary of State for Energy, under whose mandate reforms were developed to modify the electricity bill, extend the social electricity bonus to single parents and eliminate what is known as the "sun tax" to facilitate self-consumption.
Also under his mandate the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan of Spain was illuminated and an agreement was reached to set an orderly calendar for the closure of nuclear power plants.
José Domínguez Abascal had been president of Abengoa from September 2015 to April 2016, when he resigned for personal reasons.
His brief period at the head of the engineering and energy company, which saved a bankruptcy proceeding, has been reporting mishaps and this Monday the Abengoa Injured Platform announced that he had requested the judge to investigate the alleged irregularities in the project of the AVE Meca-Medina, in Saudi Arabia, to be cited as investigated with former President Felipe Benjumea and former CEO Manuel Sánchez Ortega.
