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Stéphane Séjourné: “Energy is the main factor of industrial competitiveness”
European industrial competitiveness at stake in every kilowatt. October 3, 2025 Stéphane Séjourné, Executive Vice-President for Prosperity and Industrial Strategy of the European Commission, made it c [...]
Reactions to the publication of the interactive capacity map released by FIE
The publication of the interactive capacity map by electrical substations in Spain has generated a series of reactions that agree on the critical importance of the electricity grid for industrial deve [...]
Foro Industria y Energía and Opina 360 present the first capacity map of electrical substations in Spain
Of the 6,023 substations analyzed, 4,960 lack available capacity, representing 82.4% of the total. The Basque Country and La Rioja lead in grid saturation, both at 99.2% Galicia, Andalusia, and Catalo [...]
And now, where does Spanish industry plug in?
83.4% of the nodes in Spain’s electricity distribution grid are saturated, according to data published by the employers’ association AELEC. For the first time, Spain has official maps showing the actu [...]
“It’s Not Mine”: The Missing Link in Industrial Decarbonization
Joan Ramon Morante, emeritus professor of Physics at the University of Barcelona, and Héctor Santcovsky, sociologist and former associate professor at UB, point in this article to the “it’s not mine” [...]
Regulatory uncertainty claims a new victim: cogeneration (CHP)
The long-promised combined heat and power (CHP) auctions recall Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot, in which two characters wait for a certain Godot who never arrives—and whom they don’t even kno [...]
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