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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. [...]

Late, poorly, and behind schedule: industrial cogeneration leaves the waiting room
On June 23, the Spanish Council of Ministers approved the new auction framework to renew 1,200 MW of industrial cogeneration. In industrial energy management, timing is not a minor detail: it is the line that separates territorial anchoring from silent relocation. In the industrial ecosystem, stability that arrives late risks finding the shutters already down. Industry operates on short, dynamic investment cycles; regulation cannot move at the pa [...]
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