The Spanish Energy Transition into the EU Green Deal: Alignments and Paradoxes

José Antonio Peña-Ramos, María del Pino-García and Antonio Sanchez-Bayon ()
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José Antonio Peña-Ramos: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Providencia 7500912, Chile
María del Pino-García: Program of Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University, Turfmarkt 99, 2511 DC The Hague, The Netherlands

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 9, 1-18

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: geopolitics; renewable energies; energy transition; EU Green Deal; political economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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