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Europe aims to promote standardised solutions for sustainable industrial management
The European Commission has launched the call for proposals LIFE-2026-CET INDUSTRY, which seeks to create synergies between companies involved in the same processes. Europe seems to have understood th [...]
Temporary aid to address a permanent fragility
The European Commission is consulting Member States on a temporary aid framework for sectors exposed to the Middle East crisis, with the aim of adopting it before the end of April. Industry is not ask [...]
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 [...]

Brussels goes all in on electrification, but leaves questions in the air
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 to turn Europe into the world’s first electro-powered continent," Ursula von der Leyen. A rigorous analysis requires raising uncomfortable questions about the technical and operational feasibility of [...]
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