The Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving (IDAE), attached to the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO), will present the event ” Spain: Towards a Green and Competitive Reindustrialization” at the 1st International Week of Electrification and Decarbonization . The event will analyze the growth and deployment prospects of the national industrial value chain linked to renewable energies. The event will take place on Wednesday, November 19, during the joint GENERA + Matelec trade fair—held from November 18 to 20 at IFEMA—the largest commercial and innovation platform in Southern Europe for renewable energies, electrification, and technological solutions for industry.
The event organized by IDAE will serve to take the pulse of the green energy sector and its entire associated production and R&D network, from design and manufacturing to installation and export, as well as the challenges posed at both the national and European levels. Currently, the renewable energy value chain made in Spain supplies almost 100% of the equipment and components needed for wind power – we are the world’s fifth-largest exporter of wind turbines – and is approaching 70% for solar photovoltaics, while also making progress in key, less mature technologies such as energy storage and electrolysis for producing renewable hydrogen, among others.
Against this backdrop, the opening of the event will be led by the Secretaries of State for Energy, Joan Groizard, and for Industry, Jordi García Brustenga, in a dialogue to analyze challenges and opportunities, and to explore the potential of the industry-renewable energy combination as an engine for an industrial refounding that ensures sustainable economic growth, strategic autonomy and competitiveness.
PROJECTS WITH TRACTIVE CAPACITY
The dialogue between the senior officials will give way to a round table moderated by the general director of IDAE, Miguel Rodrigo, with companies that lead emblematic projects for their industrial pull capacity and that represent a qualitative leap within the Spanish renewable value chain.
This is the case of Sunwafe, from InnoEnergy – silicon ingots and wafers for photovoltaic panels; Nordex Electrolyzers, developing alkaline-based electrolyzers; Basquevolt, designing and developing solid-state battery technology; EnergyLoop, which already operates the first wind turbine blade recycling factory in Spain; and Navantia Seaenergies, with industrial training projects for offshore wind and assembly of high-power electrolyzers.
Due to their innovative nature and transformative capacity of the industrial fabric associated with the energy transition, they are all beneficiaries of different NextGenEU aid lines of the Recovery Plan (PRTR) enabled by MITECO and the Ministry of Industry and Tourism through the PERTES ERHA, Industrial Decarbonization and VEC.
Sharing experiences will provide a comprehensive, realistic, and grounded view of this process of green industrial redefinition, while also highlighting the opportunity that decarbonization represents for building a more dynamic and competitive economy. According to the Integrated National Energy and Climate Plan, renewable reindustrialization will lead Spain to grow 3.2% above projections and create more than half a million jobs by 2030.
