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During FES Iberia 2025, the COO of Repsol Low Carbon Generation stressed the urgent need to accelerate permitting and ensure proper remuneration for technologies such as pumped hydro storage — essential to meeting the 22 GW energy storage target set by the PNIEC for 2030.

July 4, 2025
Future Energy Summit will continue its 2025 tour with four strategic destinations in Latin America: Brazil, Peru, Colombia and Chile

FES will bring together hundreds of renewable energy leaders in Lima, Bogotá, and Santiago to analyze opportunities for the energy transition and explore synergies and new business opportunities through exclusive networking spaces. Additionally, FES will host a webinar on the future of green energy in Brazil. Discover all the details!

July 4, 2025
FES Iberia 2025: Worldlex highlights the Andalusian one-stop shop model as key to unlocking projects

During her participation in the event, Marta Pérez García, Executive Director of Worldlex, proposed advancing digitalisation and coordination among administrations. “You arrive and find someone who helps you through the steps,” she illustrates, referring to the experience in Andalusia.

July 4, 2025
INCOSA’s Bet at FES Iberia: Strategic Engineering to Accelerate the Energy Transition

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At FES Iberia 2025, Germán Albarrán Izquierdo, Energy Business Director at INCOSA, emphasized the essential role of engineering as both a technical and economic driver of the energy transition. “We want to highlight how engineering enables better decision-making to ensure projects meet their objectives,” he states.

July 4, 2025
MITECO opens the draft Royal Decree for the promotion of renewable fuels for consultation

It establishes a path for fuel suppliers to introduce renewable energy into transport to comply with the PNIEC and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 16.3% by 2030.

July 3, 2025
Optimize Energy anticipates the financial impact of being an early mover in storage at FES Iberia 2025

During its participation in the event, Optimize Energy emphasised that the first projects to enter the Spanish system will capture most of the available market value, particularly through balancing services. According to its analysis, the key will be hybridisation with renewables and highly optimised operations from day one.

July 3, 2025
“We need reforms now”: Over 40 organisations back a manifesto for a 100% renewable system

The manifesto seeks to reaffirm the strategic role of renewables following a context of “unjustified criticism” and calls for urgent reforms to move towards a fully decarbonised energy system.

July 3, 2025
Spain’s Green and Connected Alliance backs Royal Decree-Law 7/2025 and urges swift ratification in Parliament

Royal Decree-Law 7/2025 introduces key reforms to ease industrial access to the grid and cut electricity costs, addressing major proposals from the Green and Connected Alliance, while still leaving pending issues on taxation, investment caps, and anticipatory infrastructure.

July 2, 2025
AFRY identifies critical infrastructure gaps limiting floating offshore wind development in Iberia

The report prepared by the consultancy highlights the urgent need to address the lack of subsea contractors and specialised vessels, alongside regulatory clarity. “Without regulatory clarity and subsea capabilities, progress will be very limited,” warns Maassen van den Brink.

July 2, 2025
Yingli launches Plateau series photovoltaic modules to withstand extreme highland conditions

The Chinese manufacturer has unveiled its new line of N-type modules with 24.1% efficiency, designed to endure temperatures below -30 °C, category 18 winds, and high UV irradiation, with applications already operating at altitudes above 4,000 meters.

July 1, 2025
360Energy bets on hybridisation, batteries and full project control at FES Iberia 2025

During his address at FES Iberia 2025, Benjamín Reynal, Northern Hemisphere Coordination Director at 360Energy, explained how the Argentine company is implementing a fully integrated model in Spain. This includes hybrid generation with storage, end-to-end project operation, and a focus on large-scale self-consumption—a strategy designed to tackle grid saturation, price pressure, and regulatory complexity.

July 1, 2025
Saeta Yield backs solar and storage to reshape the European energy system

Álvaro Pérez de Lema de la Mata, CEO of Saeta Yield, highlighted at FES Iberia 2025 that the company, following its integration into the Masdar group, aims to lead Europe’s renewable development from Spain with a firm commitment to the solar-storage tandem and a long-term industrial vision.

July 1, 2025
Beatriz Corredor (Redeia): “The TSO model has proven to be the system’s greatest strength and is now key to the country’s reindustrialisation”

The Shareholders’ Meeting reaffirmed Beatriz Corredor as Chair with 98% support, endorsed all proposals, and approved a €0.60 dividend. Corredor welcomed the new RDL and announced €1.4 billion in investments aligned with Redeia’s strategic and ecological transition goals.

June 30, 2025
Italy Redefines Its Power Grid: Terna Implements Microzones Amid Virtual Saturation of 350 GW in Renewable Requests

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Italy’s national grid operator, Terna, is rolling out a new microzonal planning model to manage over 350 GW of connection requests to the national transmission grid (RTN), despite the country’s official 2030 target of just 65 GW of new renewable capacity. Legal experts from GreenSquare Italia analyze the technical, legal, and economic implications of this regulatory shift.

June 30, 2025
At FES Iberia 2025, Chemik Group unveils solutions that cut solar project CAPEX by up to 4%

During FES Iberia 2025, Chemik Group’s CTO showcased technologies capable of reducing project CAPEX by up to 4%, including innovations like the Stream Plus system and trench-free cable routing. “Everyone wants to keep lowering CAPEX, and we respond with real solutions,” states Erdociain.

June 30, 2025
Rafael Esteban (ACCIONA) warned of an electricity system being cannibalised by excess renewables

Rafael Esteban, Global Director of Business Development at ACCIONA Energía, called for a reformulation of energy policy during the Future Energy Summit (FES) Iberia 2025, in response to a wholesale market that had already recorded 522 hours of zero or negative prices.

June 30, 2025
Schletter displays fast and tailored solar solutions for Europe at FES Iberia 2025

At FES Iberia 2025, Alejandro Ramos, Sales Director for Spain and Latin America at Schletter, explained how the company is positioning itself as a strategic partner in Europe by offering tailored structural solutions, one-week delivery times, and long-term warranties—crucial elements to scale in a market driven by speed, quality and reliability.

June 30, 2025
MITECO allocates €100 million to support eco-design, reuse, and recycling of capital goods for renewable energy

RENOCICLA opens its call from 8 July to 16 September, offering €100 million to support projects on eco-design, recycling and recovery of renewable energy components, aiming to boost strategic autonomy and build a circular industrial value chain in Spain.

June 27, 2025
Rocío Sicre outlines EDPR’s hybrid strategy at FES Iberia

The Spain General Manager of EDP Renewables called for regulatory certainty and network planning to make electrification viable. The company is advancing projects that combine renewables, storage and demand, with 4,586 MW installed in the country.

June 27, 2025
Smart storage and thermal efficiency: Risen Energy’s proposal at FES Iberia 2025