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The elephant in the room: ETS2 could increase the gas bill by up to €42.75 per MWh annually from 2030
From 2030, with the removal of the ETS2 €45/t cap, the annual additional cost per MWh of gas consumed could range between €26.6 and €42.75, according to our calculations based on the European Central [...]
Pedro and the Energy Wolf: “The Blackout Is Coming!”
Note: A play on words - not a political one. Before anyone jumps to conclusions, let’s clarify: no, this is not an article about Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez. The name “Pedro” here is purely [...]
The Electric Tax That Bites Its Own Tail
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission: “If we look at the average energy bills of our industry in the European Union, 34% of those bills are taxes.” We tax electricity to sustain [...]
Reactions to the FIE Capacity Map: BASQUENERGY Cluster warns of the risk of industrial relocation due to grid saturation in the Basque Country
"The saturation of the electricity grid in Euskadi poses a serious risk of losing industrial investments", José Ignacio Hormaeche, General Director of BASQUENERGY Cluster October 17, 2025 The publicat [...]
Uncertainty threatens to once again cripple the industry amid the risk of new blackouts
Industry must seize the gravity of the moment to demand transparency and agility in the execution of the investment already planned for the transmission network. Its energy management cannot be limite [...]
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 [...]

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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