Foro Industria y Energía and Opina 360 are expanding their overview of the Spanish electricity system by now incorporating demand data from the transmission grid. The cross-analysis of the transmission and distribution maps shows that the electricity [...]
Analysts Leonard Hyman and William Tilles warn that water scarcity is becoming an energy security issue. Water risk travels through the power grid and reaches the entire energy system on which industry depends. Water efficiency must be assessed along [...]
Published in El Economista Hormuz has not created our industry’s competitiveness problems; it has intensified them and, above all, made them visible. The question we have been asking ourselves incorrectly for months is not whether we want gas or rene [...]
Under current legislation, industrial companies can “build” their own electricity substations, but the procedures are complex and the decision on access lies, in the first instance, with the grid operator. The company must bear the costs and, in the [...]
J.R. Morante and H. Santcovsky September 25, 2026 For decades we have spoken of productivity as a relationship between labor, capital, technology, and organization. Artificial intelligence now compels us to add—once again, and with far greater force [...]
FIE presents updated map of access capacity to electrical substations. 86.5% of analyzed substations have no available access capacity, compared to 86.3% recorded in March. The system has lost 282 MW net since March despite the new anti-hoarding regu [...]
No industrial plant is designed, financed, or managed with the purpose of getting paid to stand idle. The compensation under the Active Demand Response Service (SRAD) is necessary, but an exceptional measure cannot become routine. Industry can and mu [...]
J.R. Morante and H. Santcovsky 4 September 2026 Talking about industry and energy also means talking about transport. Industrial activity does not end at the factory gate: raw materials, components, finished products and people must move for producti [...]
On 17 July, the European Commission presented the Electrification Action Plan, the package with which it aims to put European industry, transport, and buildings on the path toward electricity as the main alternative to fossil fuels. "Today we propose [...]
The story of the Zalia substation perfectly illustrates the mismatch that often exists between urban planning and the reality of energy supply. The real key to 21st-century economic development does not travel on wheels or rails: it travels as electr [...]
