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SPAIN BUILDS INTEL | Issue 03
Weekly Infrastructure & Industrial Intelligence Editor’s Note Welcome to issue three of Spain Builds: the direct-to-your-inbox, weekly briefing on the transport, logistics, and green energy infrastructure transforming the Iberian peninsula. Let’s dive in. Iberian Market Translation & Intelligence: Need to streamline cross-border communications? I provide premium technical translation services (Spanish and Catalan into English) for engineering manuals, concession filings, and… Continue reading
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SPAIN BUILDS INTEL | Issue 02
Weekly Infrastructure & Industrial Intelligence Editor’s Note Welcome to issue two of Spain Builds: the direct-to-your-inbox, weekly briefing on the transport, logistics, and green energy infrastructure transforming the Iberian peninsula. Let’s dive in. Iberian Market Translation & Intelligence: Need to streamline cross-border communications? I provide premium technical translation services (Spanish and Catalan into English) for engineering manuals, concession filings, and… Continue reading
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SPAIN BUILDS INTEL | Issue 01
Weekly Infrastructure & Industrial Intelligence Editor’s Note Welcome to the inaugural issue of Spain Builds: the direct-to-your-inbox, weekly briefing on the transport, logistics, and green energy infrastructure transforming the Iberian peninsula. Let’s dive in. Iberian Market Translation & Intelligence: Need to streamline cross-border communications? I provide premium technical translation services (Spanish and Catalan into English) for engineering manuals, concession filings,… Continue reading
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Why is Spain Investing Billions in Green Hydrogen Infrastructure?
Executive Summary Spain is emerging as a striking economic anomaly by aggressively expanding its green hydrogen targets while global markets undergo a sharp structural correction. Across the international landscape, a wave of high-profile project cancellations, regulatory logjams, and a distinct lack of long-term off-takers have forced institutional capital to reassess its commitments. Globally, less than… Continue reading
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BESS Investment in Spain: Lessons from the 2025 Blackout
Why is the Spanish Energy Market Shifting to BESS? On the morning of 28 April 2025, the Iberian Peninsula lost power. Not because it lacked energy, but because it lacked stability. For decades, the grid relied on the massive spinning turbines of gas and coal plants to act as natural shock absorbers. But as these… Continue reading
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Transforming Forgotten Roads into Cultural Assets in Southern Spain
Spain’s Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility has launched a pioneering project to give a second life to some of the country’s most emblematic but neglected roads. Known as the IVAPCHETE project, the initiative aims to identify, evaluate and rehabilitate historic sections of the state road network that no longer function as roadways but retain… Continue reading
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Spain’s Clean Energy Paradox
Spain has done something few countries have: it has decoupled electricity prices from the cost of fossil fuels, so the price of gas or coal no longer sets the market rate. In fact, fossil fuel prices dictated the overall electricity price only 19 % of the time in 2025, compared to 75 % in 2019, according to… Continue reading
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Viva España: Is Spain the ideal location for US researchers in exile?
Amidst growing political interference and funding cutbacks in the US, many researchers are looking for a way out – and Spain is rolling out the red carpet. With its newly expanded ATRAE programme, the country is offering generous funding, state-of-the-art infrastructure, and long-term support to attract international scientific talent – especially those now questioning their… Continue reading
