The Spanish Energy Transition into the EU Green Deal: Alignments and Paradoxes
Metadatos
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Peña Ramos, José AntonioEditorial
MDPI
Materia
Geopolitics Renewable energies Energy transition EU Green Deal Political economy
Date
2021Referencia bibliográfica
Peña-Ramos, J.A.; del Pino-García, M.; Sánchez-Bayón, A. The Spanish Energy Transition into the EU Green Deal: Alignments and Paradoxes. Energies 2021, 14, 2535. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14092535
Résumé
Climate change, clean energy transition, the energy security quest, and international
relations have triggered the revival of renewable energy as a solution to these problems. Nowadays,
there is an energy transition where renewable energies bring geopolitical changes in a world where
fossil fuels are becoming less relevant. This article aims to assess how the transition influences
Spain’s energy relations with other countries regarding electricity and its sources, in alignment with
the European Green Deal. In order to do so, its current energy situation, the renewable energies
development and its energy import-export relations are examined. The results show that despite
progress in green regionalization through more electric interconnection, little difference is to be found
in traditional relations with fossil fuel countries exporters, but more are the contractions in Spanish
energy economic policy, as here is explained.