pv magazine’s July review of last year’s Iberian blackout has a blunt diagnosis: the system that left 60 million people without power lacked the storage to absorb the shock. https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/07/24/the-iberian-bess-paradox/ A year on, storage is still the industry’s unresolved question — not because the case for it is unclear, but because the route to build…
Portugal’s wind output jumped 37% week-on-week in the first days of August. Spain’s fell 5.7% over the same seven days. https://aleasoft.com/more-wind-lower-demand-european-power-prices-august-2026/ Same peninsula, same week, opposite direction. AleaSoft’s data also shows Spain, Portugal, France and Germany each set new daily solar PV records in early August — and Iberian prices still rose rather than fell,…
🌬️ Spain’s wind fleet posted its highest single day of the year on 5 August — 277 GWh — with lighter demand pushing prices down across European power markets the same week. 👉 https://elperiodicodelaenergia.com/la-mayor-produccion-eolica-y-la-menor-demanda-favorecen-descensos-de-precios-en-los-mercados-electricos-europeos-en-la-primera-semana-de-agosto Good wind days make headlines. What determines whether a project actually captures that resource over 20+ years gets decided years earlier,…
TotalEnergies just agreed to buy Shell’s entire European onshore renewables business — 500 MW of operating and under-construction solar and wind, plus a 3.5 GW pipeline across four countries — and in the same announcement, sold a 50% stake in a separate €1.8bn portfolio to KKR. https://www.renews.biz/other-news/totalenergies-swoops-for-shells-european-renewables-business/ One seller, one buyer, two completely different transaction…
Solar just became Portugal’s single largest source of electricity for the first time — 19% of national consumption in July, ahead of hydro, wind and biomass, with renewables covering 53% of demand for the month (pv-magazine.com, 7 Aug 2026). That’s a milestone worth celebrating. It is also a pricing problem. Spain logged 397 hours of…
Acciona just sold a 361 MW Spanish wind portfolio to Galp for €432 million — 15 operating parks, an average age of 21 years, and a clean, predictable cash flow story (energias-renovables.com, 27 Jul 2026). That deal is a signal, not an outlier. Capital is rotating away from development-stage solar and toward operating wind assets…
On 14 September, Portugal runs its first dedicated storage capacity auction — 1.05 GW split between 750 MW standalone BESS and 300 MW co-located with existing renewables, spread across grid nodes from Rio Maior to Tavira. We’re seeing the standalone-vs-co-located question stop being a footnote and start driving the whole development services agreement. Co-location borrows…
Acciona just closed the sale of a 361 MW Spanish wind portfolio to Galp for €432m — Galp’s second Spanish wind acquisition this year, after a 351 MW parcel from Plenium and Bankinter back in April. That pace tells a story we’re living from the intermediary’s chair. Iberian wind is entering its consolidation phase. Assets…
Portugal’s grid strategy is shifting from “first in the queue” to “first to prove you can be counted on.” DGEG’s latest security-of-supply monitoring flagged reliability risk across every future scenario without a capacity mechanism — and pv-magazine reported in June that Portugal is now designing a capacity market with a dedicated battery storage auction, targeting…
Solar captured a record share of Iberian generation this summer — and record numbers of negative-price hours to go with it. pv-magazine reported this month that Europe’s negative electricity price hours have surged again in 2026, driven by record solar output, with Spain and Portugal among the hardest hit. For merchant and semi-merchant solar, that’s…
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