Energy has ceased to be a mere interchangeable commodity and has become a raw material with differentiated qualitative value. Without energy, critical materials are useless; without critical materials, energy cannot be deployed either. Industrial ene [...]
From 2030, with the removal of the ETS2 €45/t cap, the annual additional cost per MWh of gas consumed could range between €26.6 and €42.75, according to our calculations based on the European Central Bank’s carbon price estimates. ETS2 will apply, fr [...]
Note: A play on words - not a political one. Before anyone jumps to conclusions, let’s clarify: no, this is not an article about Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez. The name “Pedro” here is purely a literary coincidence — a nod to one of Aesop’s m [...]
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission: “If we look at the average energy bills of our industry in the European Union, 34% of those bills are taxes.” We tax electricity to sustain the welfare state, but that very tax weakens the i [...]
"The saturation of the electricity grid in Euskadi poses a serious risk of losing industrial investments", José Ignacio Hormaeche, General Director of BASQUENERGY Cluster October 17, 2025 The publication of the interactive capacity map by electrical [...]
Industry must seize the gravity of the moment to demand transparency and agility in the execution of the investment already planned for the transmission network. Its energy management cannot be limited to savings but must evolve towards a strategy of [...]
"Companies that can decarbonize their production processes through electrification cannot plan or execute investments if they do not have certainty that they will have access to the necessary connection capacities," Salvador Sedó, Director of Sustain [...]
European industrial competitiveness at stake in every kilowatt. October 3, 2025 Stéphane Séjourné, Executive Vice-President for Prosperity and Industrial Strategy of the European Commission, made it clear in his speech at Nueva Economía Fórum that en [...]
The publication of the interactive capacity map by electrical substations in Spain has generated a series of reactions that agree on the critical importance of the electricity grid for industrial development. Starting today, and in the coming weeks, [...]
Of the 6,023 substations analyzed, 4,960 lack available capacity, representing 82.4% of the total. The Basque Country and La Rioja lead in grid saturation, both at 99.2% Galicia, Andalusia, and Catalonia concentrate the highest available capacity 24 [...]
