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Energy Policies of IEA Countries: Spain 2009
…technology, and succeeded in integrating large amounts of intermittent power in the electricity grid. Along with other IEA member countries, Spain has set ambitious climate and energy security targets. Achieving these will require a transition to a low-carbon economy. Spain will need to increase its efforts to reduce CO2 emissions, particularly in the transport but also in the critical power sector. As fossil fuels still provide more than half of electricity, Spain will need to keep open all the options – including nuclear, renewables, and the technology of carbon capture and storage – for making its power sector less carbon-intensive.
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Spain 2021
Energy Policy Review The International Energy Agency (IEA) regularly conducts in-depth peer reviews of the energy policies of its member countries. This process supports energy policy development and encourages the exchange of international best practices and experiences.
Since the last IEA review in 2015, Spain has solved a long-standing issue of tariff deficits in its electricity and gas sectors and closed all of its coal mines, which has allowed it to place the energy transition at the forefront of its energy and climate change policies.
The current Spanish framework for energy and climate is based on the 2050…
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Renewables 2020
Analysis and forecast to 2025 In May 2020, the IEA market update on renewable energy provided an analysis that looked at the impact of Covid-19 on renewable energy deployment in 2020 and 2021. This early assessment showed that the Covid-19 crisis is hurting – but not halting – global renewable energy growth. Half a year later, the pandemic continues to affect the global economy and daily life. However, renewable markets, especially electricity-generating technologies, have already shown their resilience to the crisis. Renewables 2020 provides detailed analysis and forecasts through 2025 of the impact of Covid-19 on renewables in…
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Energy Policies of IEA Countries: Spain 2005
Energy Policy Review Energy Policies of IEA Countries: Spain 2005 This International Energy Agency review of energy policies and programmes systematically examines Spain's general energy policy including energy policy as it relates to the environment, energy demand, and energy end-use efficiency as well as energy policy concerning oil, coal, natural gas, renewables, electricity, and nuclear power. It also reviews research and development activities and presents key statistics. It finds that meeting its Kyoto target will be a major challenge for Spain, and makes a series of recommendations on that and other issues including gas storage and electricity interconnections.
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Energy Policies of IEA Countries: Spain 2015 Review
Since the last IEA review in 2009, Spain’s dependence on energy imports has decreased markedly, in part thanks to a rapid increase in renewable energy supply. Spain’s security of supply has further been improved with diversified import sources and enhanced storage capacity for both oil and gas.In the electricity sector, Spain has built a large, diverse and reliable power generation fleet. After several years of efforts, the government has now also managed to solve the massive imbalance between the electricity system’s regulated costs and revenues. The broad and deep electricity market reform has fundamentally changed the…
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Energy Policies of IEA Countries: Spain 2001
…electricity and gas market liberalisation during the last few years and full liberalisation of both markets is scheduled for the beginning of 2003. But many details are yet to be defined. The electricity market is still dominated by two large companies and the gas market by one. The report recommends measures to achieve effective competition. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions remains a major challenge for the Spanish government. Carbon dioxide emissions continued to increase along with energy demand. Spanish GHG emissions in 1998 were already 21% above the 1990 level, while Spain is committed to reduce them to 15% above 1990.
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Spain Oil Security Policy
…after a steady, albeit slow increase in imports since 2011. The country has a negligible oil production but the processing capacity at its eight refineries exceeds domestic needs and makes Spain a net-exporter of oil products. According to Spain’s National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP), which targets carbon neutrality in 2050, oil consumption will drop by 23% over the next 10 years, contributing to a 31% cut of overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions over the period. This will come about due to major changes in transport and mobility patterns in the country, with 5 million electric vehicles on…
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Spain Natural Gas Security Policy
…as well as authorising infrastructure, including high-pressure grids, LNG terminals and subterranean storage. It also enforces safety regulations, ensures security of supply (including strategic reserves obligations and supply diversification requirements), ensures gas quality, promotion of renewable gases (biogas, bio-methane and hydrogen), and oversees revenues and third-party access tariffs for underground storage. Natural gas infrastructure Networks: transmission and distribution The Spanish gas transport grid reached a total length of 13 361 km of pipelines in 2019, with seven LNG terminals (six operating) and four underground storage facilities, providing natural gas to 1 805 municipalities), and over 7.9…
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Spain's legislation on oil security
Introduction Spain’s response to oil supply disruptions is primarily governed by the provisions of the consolidated version of the 1998 Law 34/1998 of October 7 of the Hydrocarbons Sector (HCS) as amended by the 2015 Law 8/2015 of May 21. While the HCS provides the legal framework for Spain’s response to oil emergencies, the detailed regulations of the Spanish response to oil supply shortages are provided by the consolidated version of the 2004 Royal Decree 1716/2004 regulating the Obligation to Maintain Minimum Security Stocks, Natural Gas Supply Diversification and the Strategic Petroleum Product Reserves Corporation…
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Spain Electricity Security Policy
Country Energy Security Policy - Electricity Overview and generation portfolio Spain’s demand for electricity is increasing across all sectors as a result of its electrification strategy, and industry, residential and services sectors respectively consume similar amounts of electricity. In the last decade, electricity generation in Spain has notably decarbonised, as the share of production from fossil fuels decreased. Renewable energy is the leading provider of electricity, followed by natural gas, nuclear, coal and oil. Spain is now halfway to reaching the National Energy and Climate Plan’s objective of having 74% of renewables electricity generation in 2030, which will require…