The “Electrical Gold” of Small Municipalities
Of the 6,102 electrical substations analyzed across the country, 3,387 are located in municipalities with fewer than 20,000 inhabitants, representing 55.5% of the total, according to the latest analys [...]
Grid access, but for whom? The key question that RDL 7/2026 still does not answer
Royal Decree-Law 7/2026 sets out general guidelines, but does not translate them into operational criteria. The debate is not whether there should be public intervention, but how it is articulated wit [...]
Navarra Frees Up 440 MW in Three Months Without Expanding Its Grid. Is That Good News?
A saturated substation is not, in itself, a problem, but rather a sign that there is a productive fabric making use of the available network capacity. The problem is not saturation itself, but saturat [...]
Andalusia Could Run Out of Access to Electrical Connection Points in the Coming Months
In five months, Andalusia has lost 921 MW of available electrical capacity: more than it currently has across its entire grid (630 MW). Andalusia has lost 59% of its available electrical capacity sinc [...]
Practically Nine Out of Ten Electrical Substations No Longer Have Available Capacity
The latest analysis by the Industry and Energy Forum (FIE) and Opina 360 reveals that 5,265 (86.3%) substations already lack available capacity, 30 more than last December. The grid has 7,400 MW avail [...]
Can Europe’s current energy mix sustain Made in Europe?
Without the right “Energy Euromix” there is no Powered by Europe. And without Powered by Europe there is no Made in Europe. In a world where energy has stopped being a technical input and has become o [...]
There will be no Made in Europe without a Powered by Europe
Energy has ceased to be a technical input and has become one of the main weapons of foreign policy. Europe has moved from depending on a supplier with whom it had a conflict of values to depending on [...]
Managing Scarcity Is Not Solving It: MITECO and the CNMC in the Face of Grid Collapse
While regulations attempt to optimize every available megawatt, access capacity data shows that industrial demand continues to consume the grid at a speed that no regulatory "patch" can keep up with. [...]
Jesús Martínez: “The smart factory measures energy. Whether it actually knows how to manage it is another matter.”
“The smart factory will be energy efficient when energy stops being just a data point and becomes a criterion,” says Jesús Martínez, founder of Kurago and professor of Digitalization and Organizationa [...]
The Ground Zero of Industrial Sovereignty Is the Municipality
We often forget that industry has a specific postal address. Industry is, above all, just another neighbor. When an industry sets up in a municipality, the municipality is transformed. And when an ind [...]
Pedro Sánchez: “Factory smoke is a thing of the past, but smoke-free factories are the certainty of the future”
“When we talk about energy, we must do so in connection with the industrial ecosystem,” Jordi Hereu, Minister of Industry and Tourism. “Industry is the spearhead in the defense of humanist values with [...]
Industry is Once Again the Fuse of the Power System.
Storm Kristin caused the shutdown of 5,000 MW of wind generation due to winds exceeding 90 km/h. Red Eléctrica activated the SRAD and shut down 1,725 MW of industrial load for two hours. 20 combined-c [...]
8,000 MW of Renewables Authorized in 2025—But Where Will Industry Plug In?
According to the latest report by Opina 360’s Renewable Energy Observatory, Spain authorized 8,194.5 MW of renewable capacity in 2025, 69% less than the previous year. We have designed a system to pou [...]
From the Foundry to the Terrace: Tracing the Industrial Footprint of Tourism
When we trace the industrial footprint of tourism, we discover that every vacation experience begins much earlier, in the industrial warehouses that shape materials. The future is not “either tourism [...]
Spanish electricity grid loses 2.8 GW in two months and reaches 85.7% saturation
85.7% of Spanish substations are fully saturated and grid has lost nearly 2.8 GW in two months, according to latest analysis by Foro Industria y Energía and Opina 360. Availability of grid access is b [...]
2024: a lost year for industry decarbonisation
31% of energy consumed by Spanish industry comes from renewable sources. 2024 marks a historic record in the share of renewable energy consumed by Spanish industry, although progress is mainly driven [...]
⚡ FIE wishes you an energy-filled 2026. May it be an electric year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpEptcMY6Kw December 19, 2025 2025 has been a year of energy-driven reflections, set to the rhythm of music. We explored whether Spanish industry could be more electri [...]
The Director of the European Commission Representation in Spain warns that “Europe is mortal” and urges progress on industrial and energy autonomy
Daniel Calleja, newly appointed Director of the European Commission Representation in Spain, echoes Macron’s warning: “Europe is mortal” if it continues outsourcing its defense to the United States, d [...]