The 2020 Crisis… Energy, And now what do we do?
At this point, there is no doubt that 2020 will be considered in history as one of humanity's most acute crises year. It was born under the auspices of great signs of wear in the growth models of the main economies and with insufficient efforts (led [...]
What’s next for the U.S. Energy Future: U.S. 2020 Presidential Elections
After 4 years everyone agrees with the fact that we live in a different World, especially the American citizens that voted on November 8th of 2016 for their leader: Donald Trump. It has been four years of controversial leadership and governance, with strong positions and opinions, [...]
The new proposal on the European Green Deal to put forward a comprehensive plan to increase the European Union’s target for 2030
2020 is almost over and the European Union looks set to meet its emissions reduction targets, but the 2030 targets will most likely be increased. This is increasing the volatility of the emissions trading market, but is the price increase really supported? Let us remember the [...]
Petrostates and the art of transition to electrostates
After the second world war America’s unmatched ability to consume oil outstripped its unmatched ability to produce it. Ensuring supplies from elsewhere became an overriding priority. But what it might mean to be an energy superpower is changing, thanks to three linked global shifts. First, fears [...]
Self-consumption and COVID-19
Everything was ready to give space to photovoltaic self-consumption in Spain before the coronavirus crisis. We had an improvement in law, first with the elimination of the tax on the sun, in October 2018 and then with Royal Decree 244/2019, of April 5. The latter allowed [...]
Electric Mobility: ambitious goals and big challenge for Spain
Electric mobility continues to advance at a slow but inexorable pace. Spain may not be one of the countries that registers more electric vehicles, given its per capita income and scarce aid, but it will eventually join the trend, yes or no. For now, at national [...]