Spain's battery manufacturing advantage on the road to net zero
Spain has a strong automotive sector, a strong manufacturing tradition, and is no stranger to announcements of EV battery gigafactories. So how well-placed is the country in Europe’s battery value chain and what can we expect from its EV-to-power-grid market?
These are some of the key discussion points in this fourth and final episode of the special edition Energy Transitions podcast series, with Francisco Carranza, Partner at Futuraiser.
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How electric mobility can unlock business opportunities for Spain's fleets
In the third episode of a special four-part miniseries of the Energy Transitions Podcast exploring Spain’s journey to greener mobility, host Yusuf Latief speaks with Jacobo Domínguez-Blanco, CEO of Vecttor, a Spanish company specialising in passenger transportation through vehicles with drivers (VTC).
Domínguez-Blanco outlines how these pressures are forcing a rethink in how fleets are managed, charged, and integrated into urban energy systems. He also draws on the company’s partnership with Iberdrola, where energy saving certificates (ESCs) are used to monetise fleet electrification, to discuss the opportunities e-mobility is opening up for business in Spain.
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Fitting electric vehicles into Spain's power system
In the second episode of a special four-part miniseries of the Energy Transitions Podcast exploring Spain’s journey to greener mobility, host Yusuf Latief speaks with Jorge Muñoz Riesco, Head of Smart Mobility for Iberdrola.
Riesco helps unpack what’s needed to ensure that EV charging and the power system evolve in sync, considering elements such as charging technologies, grid investment and forward-looking regulation.
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Can Spain’s transport sector keep pace with decarbonisation?
In the first episode of a special four-part miniseries of the Energy Transitions Podcast zooming in on Spain’s journey to greener mobility, host Yusuf Latief speaks with Pierpaolo Cazzola and Matteo Craglia, two leading transport and energy policy experts from the University of California, Davis’s European Transport and Energy Research Centre.
Together, they unpack why, despite offering significant subsidies since 2009, EV adoption in Spain still lags behind countries like Portugal.
Ultimately, Pierpaolo and Craglia explain, Spain is making progress in the sector—but more is needed to fully unlock its potential.
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Applying grid resilience lessons from Spain's blackout
Pamela Largue speaks with José Luis Adanero López, Head of Planning, Regulation & Investment Office at Iberdrola and Simona Rossetti, Senior VP of sales Europe for Grid Technologies at Siemens Energy. López and Rossetti explore the causes and aftermath of the Spanish blackout, as well as the critical roles of grid inertia, regulatory stability, and strategic investment to build a resilient energy grid in Europe.
In this episode you will learn more about:
How the energy transition is causing a heightened need for resilience strategies,
Lessons learned from the Spanish blackout and how to transform those lessons into actions,
The impact of eliminating fossil fuels and the loss of rotating mass,
The hidden challenges of introducing renewables into the system,
Regulatory strategies to improve grid resilience,
How to direct investment to ensure a more proactive rather than reactive approach to grid resilience,
The role of digitalisation in grid stability.
Welcome to the Energy Transitions Podcast, brought to you by Enlit. In this bi-weekly podcast, your host Pamela Largue has engaging conversations with energy sector professionals at the forefront of the energy transition in Europe and beyond. Visit https://www.enlit.world/podcasts/energy-transitions/ for more information about the series and guests.
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