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The Energy Snapshot of Spanish Industry: Strengths and Weaknesses of the IDAE Study
This study by IDAE is a necessary but insufficient snapshot. The report represents a significant step forward in the statistical understanding of energy consumption in Spanish industry, and its breakd [...]
From the “COP of Truth” to the Ashes of Inaction: When the Summit Subtracts More Than It Adds
It might be assumed that a summit without major agreements is neutral. Wrong. This COP has been clearly negative because it generates noise, delegitimizes the multilateral process, and justifies inact [...]
Talent, the overdue task of the energy transition
The energy transition is a profoundly human project: made by people for the benefit of people. Strategic energy autonomy is measured not only in installed gigawatts or in the share of renewables in th [...]
FIE urges abandoning “generacentrism” to guarantee supply security in Catalonia
Uncertainty has already led some large companies to withdraw from PERTE programmes despite significant progress in electrification processes—especially in sectors where electrification is highly compl [...]
Energy management leaves the back offices and enters the political arena
Energy management will have to be closely monitored as it begins to influence upcoming electoral cycles in Extremadura, Andalucía and Castilla y León. What was once handled exclusively in technical ba [...]
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 [...]

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. Spain has an infrastructure problem, and the regulatory response is, at best, an intelligent management of scarcity—not its solution. Digitalization and technical regulation cannot indefinitely substitute for investment in physical infrastructure. Sp [...]
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