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The Foro Industria y Energía is the meeting point for reflection and dialogue among all the stakeholders involved in the development and management of energy for the industry. The FIE encourages dialogue and collaboration to place the energy management of the industry at the center of the discussion, as well as to raise awareness of its importance as one of the key factors for competitiveness.

The new “black gold” is green: energy as a strategic raw material
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 energy management thus sits at the intersection of both worlds: energy as both an input and an infrastructure. Green gold requires its own “refining” process: the optimization of the energy mix. Access t [...]
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Reactions to the interactive capacity map published by FIE: new voices from Catalonia, Asturias, and Galicia
"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 connecti [...]
Stéphane Séjourné: “Energy is the main factor of industrial competitiveness”
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 c [...]
Reactions to the publication of the interactive capacity map released by FIE
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 deve [...]
Foro Industria y Energía and Opina 360 present the first capacity map of electrical substations in Spain
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 Catalo [...]
And now, where does Spanish industry plug in?
83.4% of the nodes in Spain’s electricity distribution grid are saturated, according to data published by the employers’ association AELEC. For the first time, Spain has official maps showing the actu [...]
“It’s Not Mine”: The Missing Link in Industrial Decarbonization
Joan Ramon Morante, emeritus professor of Physics at the University of Barcelona, and Héctor Santcovsky, sociologist and former associate professor at UB, point in this article to the “it’s not mine” [...]
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