A defense study also identifies as threat the « insufficient » energy interconnections of Spain with Europe | Spain
One of the daily activities of the military is the study. They dedicate a good part of their time to the analysis of risk and threats to then elaborate strategies and plans that avoid or mitigate them. One of them is the Panorama 2025a vision of how the world is from a geopolitical perspective that annually elaborates the Spanish Institute of Strategic Studies (IEEE) and that ultimately depends on the General Staff of the Defense (EMAD). In this edition, the risks of the energy sector and in particular, the « insufficient » interconnections of Spain with the rest of the neighbors are explicitly mentioned and in a separate chapter.
Although in the 30 -page chapter, with a total of 282 extension that the book has, the energy transition promoted by Brussels is recognized as an opportunity for Spain and its strong commitment to renewables, the EMAD identifies “the lack of adequate infrastructure” in Spain as a risk and adds that the country faces “structural challenges” in this aspect. As already remembered in these same pages, The EU imposed a 10% interconnection between community countries for this year and 15% by 2030. suspense. At present, experts point out that Spain is interconnected with its European neighbors by approximately 2%.
« The lack of a cross -border infrastructure network sufficiently developed between Spain and its neighbors makes the renewable energy that occurs in the country cannot always be used by other EU countries, » continues the document. « Spain is an energy island with connections with Portugal and France. And it is especially (in the link) with France in which it must be improved, » an expert said months ago during a military symposium because, among other things, energy « will continue to define the geopolitics of the future. »
The study of the IEEE, which was presented at the beginning of the year and is prepared during the previous exercise, applauds that Spain be “leader” in the generation of renewable energy because it is not only a policy that is aligned with the objectives of the EU to reduce CO2 emissions, but also with the Paris climate agreements. But despite this, the report maintains, the interconnections between Spain and its neighbors continue to represent a very strong obstacle. « We must increase energy security in energy transition processes, » said the same analyst months ago. He also added that energy vulnerability and the effects of climate change – both concepts apparently related to what experts point out what happened on Monday – are clear risks and threats that the Government adopted in its national security strategy of 2021, the last available one, and in the consequent annual reports on ecological transition.
Although the government still maintains all open hypotheses – including cyber attack, which practically rule out in military and intelligence circles – will take weeks, even months, in knowing exactly what happened in those five seconds in which the tension fell to zero and The plumbs of the entire country went out plunging it into him chaos Energy, communications, supply, transport, etc.
Finally and as a conclusion, the authors of the document place the energy transition such as the « most relevant » climate and environmental challenge. And remember from the Panorama 2024elaborated two years ago, the growing energy demand following the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) as another challenge to face. Another notice to navigators.
