Urgent measures to boost economic competitiveness in the industry and commerce Spanish sectors … Royal Decree Law 20/2018
Last October 10 we wrote in an article about the measures presented by the government in Royal Decree Law (The expected energy transition measures have come ... Royal Decree-Law 15/2018). Legislation which facilitated further steps to legislative framework of the energy transition. It represented a first [...]
Importance of Conferences of the Parties: COP 24 Katowice
The last G20 summit and the next OPEC meeting are overshadowing the COP 24 that is taking place these days in the Polish city of Katowice. What are COPs really? In 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was held in New York, [...]
Free fall of Brent, how long?
In less than 2 months we have seen the price of a oil barrel falling by more than 32%, suffering its biggest drop since the raw materials crisis in 2015. Is this drop justified? Energy long-term investors are suffering a difficult period lately, since market experts [...]
Renewable Energy: Beyond the “Sun Tax”
On Friday, October 5, we received a news that most people welcomed with open arms: the Spain government ends with the "Sun tax". After years of controversy and battles, the Royal Decree "Real Decreto-ley 15/2018, de 5 de octubre, de medidas urgentes para la transición energética [...]
CAPTURING CO2 TO SAVE THE PLANET?!
2030! 12 years is the time We have to avoid catastrophic environmental breakdown according to the recent United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report published in October. To prevent that, the most ambitious plan conceived in the COP21 should be implemented and fulfilled. More [...]
Nuclear Energy and its discreet participation in the Spanish wholesale market
During the last weeks the proposal from the current PSOE government together with Podemos about limiting the price of certain technologies to contain the increasing price in the wholesale electricity market has been discussed. Specifically, the proposal aims to introduce changes in the operation of Spanish [...]