New decrees target energy poverty, promote renewables
The government of President Pedro Sánchez announced on Friday its approval of two new Decretos Leyes (‘Decreed Laws’) containing measures aimed at…
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Growing energy poverty impacts millions across Spain
► 8 percent of all households have trouble making monthly energy payments ► Faced with record cold temperatures in many parts of…
Valencia announces new plan to combat energy poverty, help families in need meet rent payments
• New plan to help 15,000 families, says Valencia president Puig • The regional government of Valencia has announced it will spent…
Association looks to crowdfunding to complete survey of ‘energy poverty’ among Spanish public
• An estimated 4 million Spaniards unable to pay heating bills each winter • Researchers seek online funding to determine extent of…
Redexis jumps into Spain’s solar energy market
Spanish natural gas utility Redexis is jumping headlong into Spain’s booming solar energy market, having signed an agreement with the national appliance…
Solar energy boom in Spain as foreign investment grows
Solar energy in Spain hit an all-time peak production record last week as foreign fossil-fuel companies scramble to get in on the…
Greenalia opens first of five Galicia wind-energy parks
Spanish wind energy producer Greenalia has brought online the first of five wind-energy parks it expects to build this year in Galicia,…
Gov’t agencies join trend to generate own solar energy
Spain’s self-generated solar energy movement appears to be booming just one year after the Socialist government of President Pedro Sánchez scrapped the…
Spain’s solar-thermal energy generation hits record high
► Solar-thermal electricity production up 4.1% over previous record set in 2015 ► Sun’s energy converted to stored heat, electricity by large-scale…
Expert energy panel urges more renewables, tax on CO2
A 14-member expert panel set up by Spain’s government at the behest of Congress to advise on energy policies has issued a…
Endesa increases wind energy production in Canaries
Energy giant Endesa says it increased generation of electricity from wind power last year in Spain’s Canary Islands by 1.4 MW (megawatts),…
Millions of Spanish households risk energy cutoffs
• Grandmother’s death in apartment fire raises level of ire over energy poverty • Activists say utility companies emboldened by court ruling…
Colau warns Endesa, Gas Natural on energy cutoffs
• Barcelona mayor says utilities have yet to sign up to energy cutoff protocols • Companies face 100,000-euro fines per violation under…
Left parties vie for ‘green vote’ in upcoming elections
► PSOE pledges ‘New Green Deal’, Podemos wants state-run renewables utility ►Más País calls for environmental sustainability inclusion in Spain’s Constitution It…
NGOs urge social justice agenda for election manifestos
Spanish non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have called on the country’s political parties to include commitments to social justice in their party manifestos in…
Cold temps put Spain’s homeless at greater risk
• NGOs say some 40,000 people living on streets across Spain exposed to cold • Energy poverty, social exclusion from affordable housing…
PAH anti-eviction activists call on new Congress to tackle housing crisis through emergency measures
• Group wants anti-eviction, pro-housing commitment in government talks • The nationwide anti-eviction activist Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (Platform of…
Shuttered coal-fired plants not replaced by renewables
Spain has shut down seven of the country’s 15 coal-fired power plants, as plant operators say they cannot afford to invest sufficiently…
Nissan, Alcoa closures loom large in economic downturn
Spain’s central government and regional authorities in Catalonia and Galicia have been left scrambling to avert imminent plant closures by multinationals Nissan…
In midst of crisis, Europe’s largest solar park goes online
In the midst of Spain’s coronavirus crisis, Spanish energy giant Iberdrola has flipped the switch on Europe’s largest solar energy facility, bringing…
Endesa powers retail fashion stores with renewables
Nearly 800 stores of the retail fashion chain Tendam, which includes stores operating under the Cortefiel, Pedro del Hierro, Springfield, Women’secret and…
Gov’t activates plan to reverse rural depopulation
In an effort to address the chronic problem of depopulation in rural areas of Spain, President Pedro Sánchez took 12 members of…
Major retailers jump into Spain’s booming solar market
The Spanish subsidiary of French home-improvement chain Leroy Merlin is about to have some company in Spain’s retail solar-panel market, as Ikea,…
Spain second in European wind-power growth last year
Spain installed the second-highest capacity of wind-generated electricity in Europe last year, coming second only to the United Kingdom and ranking ahead…
Endesa set to build largest solar operation in Andalucía
The green power subsidiary of Spanish energy giant Endesa has been granted a license to build a new photovoltaic solar power plant…
McDonald’s bans plastic straws, vows 40% plastics cut
McDonald’s Spain has announced that as of 24th February it will no longer provide plastic straws to customers, part of its plan…
Iglesias to coordinate ‘Agenda 2030’ for coalition gov’t
In one of the final interventions of the congressional debate Tuesday that saw Socialist party general secretary Pedro Sánchez re-elected to a…
Iberdrola paid bent cop to spy on judge, opponents
► Energy giant paid ex-policeman Villarejo to infiltrate opponents, spy on judge ► Ex-cop in jail without bail for criminal organization, bribery,…
Gov’t doubles summer lunch funding for children at risk
► 15 million euros lets VECA program help 100,000 children at risk of poverty ► 2019 program triples number of children served…
NGOs demand action from Congress on climate change
► Environmental groups join call for comprehensive climate-change legislation ► Groups urge symbolic declaration of international climate-change emergency More than two-dozen leading…
Researchers deploy robots, drones in renewables project
Spanish teams at universities and research labs in Andalucía and the Basque Country are joining with other researchers in France, Ireland, Portugal,…