Deep dives across the energy transition — written from inside the industry we convene.
A RENMAD webinar on AI in battery storage revealed why the trades that pay best are the ones that vanish before dawn — and why no human desk can keep up.
Cells and inverters are getting cheap. What now decides whether a battery project lands on time is the concrete, the cabling and the fire rules — and who signs for all of it.
For years Europe's data centres clustered in four saturated capitals. Now the money is moving south — and Italy has just given it a reason to stay.
Europe is building a cross-border market for green gas on top of a registry that still isn't switched on. The companies that get the plumbing right will own the trade.
Renewable ammonia could turn Spain's sunshine into fuel for northern Europe's ships — if demand signals, not just engines, show up.
Spain is turning the people who once fought wind and solar farms into the people who help pay for them. A quiet financing tool is making local resistance profitable for everyone.
Spain's blackout was a grid-strength problem, not a renewables verdict. The fight now is over who pays for the muscle — and whether a new market beats €600m of steel.
Everyone is transfixed by the giant AI training factories rising in Spain's empty corners. The money, three data-centre executives told an ATA Insights webinar, will be made much closer to home.
Spain's heavy lorries can decarbonise today without changing the engine — biomethane is already in the tank, and a carbon price is coming to make the case unanswerable.
Europe's green-hydrogen survivors are not the ones with the loudest press releases. They are the ones that found a buyer, a rule to lean on, and money that arrived on time.
Two project-finance banks admit no hybrid solar-plus-storage project in Iberia has yet been lent against. The counterparty that unlocks the money is the one nobody has fully priced.
Italy's first storage auction cleared at a third of the reserve price. That was not a mistake — it was a market finding its floor, and every tolling desk in Europe is now reading from it.
Data centres have asked Spain's grid for 19 gigawatts of power. Much of that demand does not really exist — and a wonkish new rulebook is quietly trying to tell the real from the imagined.
Spain's biomethane boom keeps stalling at the town-hall door. The fix is not better engineering — it's a better conversation.
A war in the Gulf has doubled gas prices and reopened Europe's oldest hydrogen argument: pay €6 for the green molecule, or €2 for the low-carbon one?
Spain's flood of zero-price hours is punishing fixed-output solar. A battery turns the plant into something that trades the swings — and that changes the sums for investors.
Spain treats a battery as both a power plant and a factory. That means paying twice to get on the grid — and the new access rules and saturation maps don't fully fix it.
Spain has the land, the sun, the sea-cables and some of Europe's cheapest clean power. Whether it becomes the continent's next data-centre hub now turns on a duller question: can it get the things connected to the grid?
A giant digester rising in Lleida turns a region's manure problem into gas, fertiliser and jobs — and shows what Spain's biomethane boom could look like everywhere.
Europe has lined up more renewable hydrogen than its own rules will oblige anyone to buy. The projects that survive to 2030 will be the ones chained to demand that is already mandated, not merely hoped for.
Banks have stopped bankrolling merchant renewables, and the humble power-purchase agreement is quietly becoming the instrument that decides which projects get built.
Half of Europe's coming battery fleet is too small for project finance and too big for an owner's chequebook. The companies that build and run the batteries are quietly filling the gap.
NVIDIA's monster racks are breaking the old economics of data-centre air conditioning. A Vertiv engineer explains why the cheapest way to cool a server is to stop trying so hard.
Spain has the gas and the buyers for biomethane. What it lacks is a price the banks can see.
A storage auction and a pricing platform have turned Italy's renewables into a buyer's market. The question is who cashes in.
Spain has 35 gigawatts of batteries queuing for the grid and almost none plugged in. Two new money pipes — a tertiary-reserve product for demand, and a capacity market a decade in the making — are quietly changing the maths.
Dublin let its data centres sprint ahead of its grid, and ended up freezing new connections. As Madrid's network fills up, Spain is being handed the Irish playbook — this time with the mistakes already marked in red.
Artificial intelligence has made data-centre racks four times hotter in the space of a few years. Air cooling has quietly given up. Two engineers explain how the industry learned to stop worrying and love a warm liquid.
Spain's grid-capacity maps have gone from a scattered afterthought to a live, monthly intelligence feed. For anyone hunting a home for a data centre, learning to read them is now the difference between a permit and a forfeited deposit.
Artificial intelligence has turned the data centre into a moving target. The industry's answer is to stop pouring concrete and start clicking bricks together.
Spain has the land, the fibre and the sunshine to become Europe's next data-centre hub. What it does not have, right now, is a spare megawatt. A recent ATA Insights webinar mapped the permitting maze that stands between a developer and a working connection.
Spain wants to be Europe's next data-centre hub. But the way it now hands out scarce grid capacity quietly ranks data centres below almost everyone else. Here is how a developer plays a rigged rubric — and sometimes still wins.
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