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Water, the Blue Currency of Geopolitics
On 18 November, Barcelona will host the XX Foro de la Economía del Agua, with water geopolitics as the focus of the opening panel. On the 21st-century geopolitical chessboard, water has ceased to be a [...]
Industry already operates with 4,345 MW on the transmission grid, while data centres queue up with 22,142 MW
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 transmissio [...]
Can Industry Drown in a Glass of Water?
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 industr [...]
Hormuz is the symptom, not the disease
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 incorre [...]
Can industrial initiative unlock access to the electricity grid?
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 oper [...]
Productivity Looks at Energy in the Age of AI
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 [...]
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