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 l [...]
Power grids, quo vadis?
Joan Ramón Morante and Héctor Santcovsky June 26, 2026 The energy transition is already a central pillar of the public agenda, with geopolitical, economic, social, and environmental implications. It e [...]
Energy, the passport of Spanish industry toward reindustrialization
In the industrial economy of the 21st century, energy is beginning to function as a passport: it determines which projects can enter, which can stay, and which end up seeking another destination. Forc [...]
Electrification on paper, bottleneck in the grid: the double standard of renewable electrification
The future may be plugged in—but only if we first make it connectable. According to IRENA, by 2050 more than half of global energy consumption will need to be electric, and almost all of that electric [...]
The ostrich strategy will not solve our problems: letter to Beatriz Corredor
Claiming that “there is no industry that has been unable to connect due to a lack of Red Eléctrica infrastructure” is inaccurate. In five months, Andalusia has lost 921 MW of available electrical capa [...]
The water–industry–energy trilemma
The energy transition has been built on gigawatts and gigatonnes of CO₂. It is time to add a third metric: “gigalitres” of water. According to the UN World Water Development Report by UNESCO, 49% of w [...]
Bread for today, hunger for tomorrow: Next Generation funds and the silent debt to competitiveness
Spain allocated more than €10.2 billion from the Next Generation EU funds to current expenditure. Are European funds being used to transform our productive fabric, or are we facing a case of bread for [...]
Electric Grid Access Is Capping Asturias’ Industrial Potential
Strategic investments in the region are hanging in the balance not because of a lack of capital or business ambition, but because the electrical infrastructure is unable to absorb demand. “There are i [...]
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 [...]