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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. [...]
Jesús Martínez: “The smart factory measures energy. Whether it actually knows how to manage it is another matter.”
“The smart factory will be energy efficient when energy stops being just a data point and becomes a criterion,” says Jesús Martínez, founder of Kurago and professor of Digitalization and Organizationa [...]
The Ground Zero of Industrial Sovereignty Is the Municipality
We often forget that industry has a specific postal address. Industry is, above all, just another neighbor. When an industry sets up in a municipality, the municipality is transformed. And when an ind [...]
Pedro Sánchez: “Factory smoke is a thing of the past, but smoke-free factories are the certainty of the future”
“When we talk about energy, we must do so in connection with the industrial ecosystem,” Jordi Hereu, Minister of Industry and Tourism. “Industry is the spearhead in the defense of humanist values with [...]

The cable that plugs into Zalia: why substations shape the industrial map
The story of the Zalia substation perfectly illustrates the mismatch that often exists between urban planning and the reality of energy supply. The real key to 21st-century economic development does not travel on wheels or rails: it travels as electrons through electrical distribution substations. You can do everything right—land, incentives, investment attraction—and still lose the project if the grid does not keep up. In October 2025, 26% of As [...]
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