La rivoluzione spagnola delle energie rinnovabili manterrà basse le bollette energetiche anche se i prezzi del gas salgono alle stelle
https://www.euronews.com/2026/03/11/spains-renewables-revolution-likely-to-keep-energy-bills-low-even-as-gas-prices-soar
di thinkB4WeSpeak
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This is partly incorrect. What makes most difference for Spain and Portugal is that they have changed the electricity pricing system and decoupled it from gas prices. Typically, the wholesale price is determined by the most expensive generation method needed to meet the demand. Yes, if you can completely push gas out it’s ok, but often there’s not enough wind or sun and some fraction of gas is needed, which pushes the electricity prices to gas generation prices. That doesn’t happen in Portugal and Spain. Otherwise the current 16% of gas generation in Spain (as per Electricity maps at the time of this comment) would be dominating the costs.
Edit: on the other hand, such high penetration of renewables is leaving the grid vulnerable (see the long blackout last year) and is tanking prices when conditions are favourable for renewable production in excess of demand, making projects unprofitable, as it was happening with solar this February.
https://elperiodicodelaenergia.com/febrero-arruina-a-la-fotovoltaica-y-adelanta-el-via-crucis-de-la-primavera-de-precios-bajos-y-curtailments/#
The price to monitor is less the price of electricity production alone but that price + storage capacity.
And that price is falling fast with new battery technology like sodium or sulfur chemistry that might be too bulkier for transportation but much cheaper for large scale electricity storage.
Once that price fell below gaz, nuclear and coal power generation, we could achieve the goal of severing our dependancy to fossile fuel or the huge technical complexity of modern nuclear power plants that take more than a decade to build.
Not there yet but closing in.
Let’s see if they can keep the power on first.
In the meantime my village is increasing water bills by up to 85% because of years of mismanagement and under-investment.
Go figure why electricity in France was so expansive when gas prices skyrocketed.