Representatives from the Administration, companies and the academic world share the opinion that there is a need to continue implementing measures to reduce the pollution rates in cities, during a conference held in Seville.
The Spanish electricity sector invested 11 billion euros over the last three years in Spain
A report drawn up by Deloitte highlights the investments made by the top five companies in the sector to tackle the major challenges related to the technological changes and decarbonisation process being brought about by the current energy transition.
Miguel Ángel Lasheras: “Regulation on the gas sector has thus far allowed the economic equilibrium of the system, and must now address the challenges of the ecological transition.”
The economist and expert in energy markets presented the “2018 Report. The Spanish natural gas sector in numbers”, a document that compiles for the first time, in a summarised and orderly manner, all the official and public data available on the sector in Spain.
According to Lasheras, over the past five years "there has been investment driven by natural growth of the demand, with prices that reflect costs and follow international price profiles”.
Assumpció Puig: “Energy rehabilitation is a strategy that addresses the challenge of reducing greenhouse gases”
The dean of the Association of Architects of Catalonia called for all the players involved to work together, at a seminar during which representatives of Barcelona City Council and the Catalan government pledged to take advantage of renewable energy in housing rehabilitation.
Vaclav Smil: “Replacing fossil fuels with renewable energies is a task that will inevitably occupy us for several generations.”
The scientist, ranked as one of the world’s top 100 thinkers according to ‘Foreign Policy’, said that “we need an accelerated energy transition to avoid excessive global warming.”
Smil emphasised the role of natural gas in decarbonisation and energy efficiency.
Francisco Reynés: “Energy poverty is a social problem that cannot be ignored and Naturgy will continue to implement specific measures that help to reduce it”
During the event, a study by the Chair of Energy Sustainability at Barcelona Institute of Economics-University of Barcelona was presented, which analyses energy poverty from the perspective of available income for vulnerable groups and concludes that one out of five Spanish households in this situation has one or more members who are unemployed.
Andris Piebalgs: “Participants in the energy markets must have suitable incentives to operate efficiently in the short term and invest appropriately in the medium and long term.”
Today in Madrid, the Energy commissioner stated that it is necessary “to promote flexibility in the wholesale market and provide clear pricing signals to encourage continuous penetration of renewable energy and to guarantee investments.”
The researcher at the Centre for Monetary and Financial Studies, Jorge Padilla, spoke about incorporating renewable energy into the wholesale electricity market and supported the need to design suitable capacity remuneration mechanisms.
Some technified and digitalised power grids will be key for addressing the energy transition successfully
Today, Santiago de Compostela played host to a conference by the Naturgy Foundation, analysing the impact of the decentralisation of power generation in the energy model, the active role of the end user and the future perspective of the production process from multiple points and the closest point possible to the consumer.
Antonio Garamendi, President of the CEOE: “Regulation must be predictable and not cause stock market ups and downs of the magnitude we’ve witnessed lately.”
Today, the president of the CEOE inaugurated a session by the Naturgy Foundation on ‘The role of gas in the decarbonisation of the EU energy system’, where he stated that “environmental sustainability goes hand in hand with economic sustainability”.
Machine learning will be the principal factor in generating business value in a growing digital setting
The Strategic Customers Director of Google Cloud, José Manuel García Gavilán, confirms that the future of digital transformation depends on the use of artificial intelligence neural networks.
IKEA España, KPMG, Telefónica, Altran, Amazon Web Services, Meliá Hotels International and Naturgy elaborated on this during the event for digitalisation projects for the improvement of competition and client experience across 7 different sectors.