Spain has a strong automotive sector, a strong manufacturing tradition, and is no stranger to announcements of EV battery gigafactories. So how well-placed is the country in Europe’s battery value chain and what can we expect from its EV-to-power-grid market?

These are some of the key discussion points in this fourth and final episode of the special edition Energy Transitions podcast series, with Francisco Carranza, Partner at Futuraiser.

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In the third episode of a special four-part miniseries of the Energy Transitions Podcast exploring Spain’s journey to greener mobility, host Yusuf Latief speaks with Jacobo Domínguez-Blanco, CEO of Vecttor, a Spanish company specialising in passenger transportation through vehicles with drivers (VTC).

Domínguez-Blanco outlines how these pressures are forcing a rethink in how fleets are managed, charged, and integrated into urban energy systems. He also draws on the company’s partnership with Iberdrola, where energy saving certificates (ESCs) are used to monetise fleet electrification, to discuss the opportunities e-mobility is opening up for business
in Spain.

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In the second episode of a special four-part miniseries of the Energy Transitions Podcast exploring Spain’s journey to greener mobility, host Yusuf Latief speaks with Jorge Muñoz Riesco, Head of Smart Mobility for Iberdrola.

Riesco helps unpack what’s needed to ensure that EV charging and the power system evolve in sync, considering elements such as charging technologies, grid investment and forward-looking regulation.

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In the first episode of a special four-part miniseries of the Energy Transitions Podcast zooming in on Spain’s journey to greener mobility, host Yusuf Latief speaks with Pierpaolo Cazzola and Matteo Craglia, two leading transport and energy policy experts from the University of California, Davis’s European Transport and Energy Research Centre.

Together, they unpack why, despite offering significant subsidies since 2009, EV adoption in Spain still lags behind countries like Portugal.

Ultimately, Pierpaolo and Craglia explain, Spain is making progress in the sector—but more is needed to fully unlock its potential.

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Pamela Largue speaks with José Luis Adanero López, Head of Planning, Regulation & Investment Office at Iberdrola and Simona Rossetti, Senior VP of sales Europe for Grid Technologies at Siemens Energy. López and Rossetti explore the causes and aftermath of the Spanish blackout, as well as the critical roles of grid inertia, regulatory stability, and strategic investment to build a resilient energy grid in Europe.

In this episode you will learn more about:

• How the energy transition is causing a heightened need for resilience strategies,
• Lessons learned from the Spanish blackout and how to transform those lessons into actions,
• The impact of eliminating fossil fuels and the loss of rotating mass,
• The hidden challenges of introducing renewables into the system,
• Regulatory strategies to improve grid resilience,
• How to direct investment to ensure a more proactive rather than reactive approach to grid resilience,
• The role of digitalisation in grid stability.

In this episode of the Energy Transitions podcast, Pamela Largue speaks with Dr Kirsty Hewitson, Director at UK's Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Collaboration (RAICo), to explore the groundbreaking use of embodied intelligence in nuclear decommissioning. According to Hewitson, whether drones or quadrupeds, data and decision making on the fly is empowering site operators and transforming the sector.

In this episode you will learn more about:

• What RAICo is working on currently and the role these solutions can play in the UK's nuclear industry,
• How AI and robots are revolutionising the nuclear sector in the UK and around the world,
• The challenges of nuclear decommissioning,
• The role of embodied intelligence in derisking nuclear decommissioning,
• How to train quadrupeds and people that operate them,
• How to address existing skills and equity gaps, as well as ensure the next generation of talent is equipped for the future working environment,
• Real world applications for technologies being developed at RAICo,
• Whether robots will totally replace human beings in this sector.

So how can developers mitigate this risk factor, and what strategies are most effective in the current US energy landscape, which can be both polarised and politicised?

Pamela Largue speaks to John Lacey, Senior Vice President and Director of Public Affairs at US-based communications firm Mower Agency, about why it's critical to build trust with communities and customers.

Ultimately, according to Lacey, trust and human connection are core ingredients to ensuring energy infrastructure projects can be built at the speed and scale required, while ensuring people remain at the heart of the energy transition.

In this episode, you will learn more about:

• The current state of US energy policy and the impact of recent changes on developers;
• Whether there is any political consensus on infrastructure development;
• What community opposition to power projects looks like and why it happens;
• Understanding the NIMBY mindset and mitigating it through earning trust;
• The importance of tailoring communication strategies to communities and technology types;
• Prioritising relevance over green messaging;
• The link between building trust and protecting the bottom line.

In this episode of the Energy Transitions podcast, Pamela Largue speaks with Christophe Williams, CEO of Naked Energy, to find out how their innovative solution of evacuated tubes produces both electricity and heat, converting up to 80% of the sun’s energy into usable power and hot water.

It's an important step forward in helping to decarbonise heat, the “warm elephant in the room” of climate action, says Williams.

In this episode you will learn more about:

• Why the company chose to be called Naked Energy;
• What it means to redefine a mature technology like solar power;
• How Naked Energy is employing novel design techniques to achieve greater solar thermal efficiencies;
• How the British Library is using solar thermal technology to decarbonise and keep precious knowledge safe;
• The use cases for solar thermal technology in decarbonising the commercial and industrial sector;
• Christophe’s journey from the creative industries into clean tech.