Castilla y León has granted environmental authorisation to a green hydrogen plant fed by renewables in Granja de Moreruela (Zamora). Per pv magazine España this is «Moreruela I», a 40 MW electrolysis plant authorised a day after its twin and part of the same project package, within an energy complex fed by 100 MW of photovoltaics. What matters to a developer is that solar half: industrial demand placed next to the generation rather than on the grid.
BW ESS has acquired two standalone battery storage projects in the Valencia region from Spanish developer Navacant, of 99 MW and 27 MW and up to 675 MWh of capacity between them, according to pv magazine España. The deal widens the buyer's position in the Spanish market; BW ESS specialises in owning and operating large-scale storage assets. For a developer it confirms there is an industrial buyer for standalone BESS portfolios in Spain, and puts another 126 MW of storage in play at Valencian nodes.
Huelva's regional industry and energy delegation has convened the levantamiento de actas previas a la ocupación for the plots affected by a 66 kV high-voltage line and 66/33 kV collector substation in the municipality of Chucena (file AT-80033). A 66/33 kV collector is generation evacuation infrastructure, and this stage is the on-site step of expropriation: connection infrastructure around Chucena is moving from paper to ground.
The Junta de Castilla y León has granted the environmental permit for a green hydrogen production plant from renewable sources in Granja de Moreruela (Zamora), held by «Inari Solar, S.L.» (file 508-22-AAZA). According to pv magazine España this is the 40 MW «Moreruela II» project, promoted by Inari Solar within Andalusian group Ansasol, integrating a 50 MW PV installation in island mode with no external power line and no substation, across 123.77 ha. For a solar developer it is 50 MW taking up land in Zamora without competing for grid access capacity.
The BOCyL carries the ruling of Valladolid's Servicio Territorial de Industria, Comercio y Economía on the prior administrative authorisation and the construction authorisation of «BESS Auriga», a battery storage generation facility hybridised with the operating «FV Auriga Solar» PV plant, in the municipality of Renedo de Esgueva (files FV-2380-ALM and ATCE-271). Hybridising onto a PV plant already in service adds storage on its existing connection point, which matters to anyone competing for capacity at that node near Valladolid.
The CNMC's new framework of flexible access permits for demand is now in force: network capacity is managed dynamically and new demand can connect at nodes with no firm capacity available, under conditions that preserve system security and reliability. For anyone developing data centres, electrolysis or storage this changes the standing answer: a saturated node stops being an automatic no and becomes a connection with conditions attached.
The Canary Islands' energy directorate has convened the levantamiento de actas previas a la ocupación for the amended project of the 66 kV double-circuit overhead-and-underground transmission line Chío-Los Olivos, in the municipality of Adeje (file AT-25/004). This is transmission, not distribution: on an isolated island system such as Tenerife's, a 66 kV double circuit in the south-west directly shapes where there is room to evacuate new generation or storage.
Red Eléctrica de España has applied for prior and construction authorisation, a public-utility declaration and environmental impact assessment for the «Maciñeira-Naraío» axis: the new Maciñeira and Naraío 400 kV substations, a 400 kV in-out connection at Maciñeira on the Boimente-Mesón do Vento line, and a new 400 kV double-circuit overhead line between the two, across As Pontes de García Rodríguez, As Somozas and San Sadurniño. The notice places the works in the 2021-2026 transmission network development plan as amended in April 2024. For a developer this is two new 400 kV nodes in northern A Coruña. Submissions are due within treinta (30) días hábiles from the day after the notice's last publication.
SolarWindBESSData CenterPontes de García Rodríguez, As· A CoruñaSomozas, As· A CoruñaSan Sadurniño· A Coruña
The Almería territorial delegation has refused prior administrative authorisation for the extension of the La Colina wind farm with the «PSFV Colina Solar» hybridisation PV plant, applied for by Parque Eólico Colina, S.L. in the municipality of Serón. As in the neighbouring Los Balazos file, the territorial impact report places the works inside the protected Complejo Serrano CS-3 Sierra de Lúcar-Partaloa of the PEPMF and makes compatibility conditional on the energy authority justifying the site. The permit is refused for lack of territorial compatibility; an appeal may be lodged within one month.
The Almería territorial delegation has refused prior administrative authorisation for the extension of the Los Balazos wind farm with the «PSFV Balazos Solar» hybridisation PV plant, applied for by Parque Eólico Los Balazos, S.L. in the municipality of Serón. The territorial impact report noted that the works sit inside the protected Complejo Serrano CS-3 Sierra de Lúcar-Partaloa of the PEPMF, so territorial compatibility required the energy authority to justify the chosen location. The permit is refused for lack of compatibility with territorial planning rules; an appeal may be lodged within one month.
The Almería territorial delegation has refused prior administrative authorisation for the extension of the Arce wind farm with the «PSFV Arce Solar» hybridisation PV plant, applied for by Parque Eólico Arce, S.L. in the municipality of Tíjola. The territorial impact report found the proposed site insufficiently justified because a significant part of the works falls on protected land, and considered a slight shift onto unprotected ground advisable. The resolution refuses the permit for lack of compatibility with territorial planning rules, and an appeal may be lodged within one month from the day after publication.
Red Eléctrica has started the submarine phase of the electricity interconnection with France, laying 276 kilometres of cable under the Bay of Biscay, after three stoppages arising from complaints over bentonite spills that add up to more than six months of suspension and 22,400 euros in fines. The interconnection is the route by which Iberian renewable surplus can leave for the rest of Europe, so its schedule is one of the heaviest variables in medium-term curtailment risk.
Valladolid's regional industry service has opened public consultation on a request to extend the public-utility recognition of the «PE Navabuena Norte» wind generation plant, in the municipalities of Valladolid and Villalba de los Alcores (file PE-3 RI-48626). Public-utility recognition is the instrument that enables expropriation and rights of way over the land affected, so extending it reaches plots that were previously outside it: this is the objection window for their owners, and a sign the developer is closing out the project's land.
WindValladolid· ValladolidVillalba de los Alcores· Valladolid
Spain's regulator CNMC has approved changes to the day-ahead and intraday electricity market rules and to operating procedures PO 3.1, PO 7.2, PO 9.1 and PO 14.4, introducing 96 trading rounds in the continuous intraday market, one for each 15-minute slot. Moving gate closure closer to real time improves renewable integration and cuts imbalances by letting generators, consumers and storage adjust their schedules later. For developers it completes the shift to quarter-hourly products that reached the intraday market in 2025 and the day-ahead market in October 2025.
According to pv magazine España, the Huesca provincial service has opened public consultation on the prior and construction authorisation of PSF Hibridación Sales Monzón, 7.18 MW (10.71 MWp) across 12.3 hectares at Castejón del Puente, promoted by Sales de Monzón to hybridise its existing 14.36 MW cogeneration plant. Connection would be made at the cogeneration plant's 25 kV busbars, with a mandatory Power Plant Controller for joint operation. The notice was published in the Boletín Oficial de Aragón, which opens the comment period.
The industry and energy office of the Government Subdelegation in Albacete has opened public consultation on the prior and construction authorisation of the Frontones Híbrida Phase II storage plant, 20 MW and 80 MWh of usable capacity, at Corral-Rubio, promoted by Elawan Eólica Frontones. It would hybridise with the Frontones installation (50 MW wind farm, 26.25 MW PV and 4 MW storage) through a 30 kV underground line to the PV plant's switching centre. Comments are due within fifteen days from the day after publication; counted as working days, the date shown is the earliest possible close and is worth confirming with the office.
The BOJA has published the unified environmental authorisation (autorización ambiental unificada) resolution for the Serón II solar plant project, 8.4 MW installed plus its evacuation infrastructure, in the municipality of Serón (Almería), promoted by Al-andalus Wind Power, S.L.U. (file AAU/AL/0017/24). The notice points to the regional environment department's website for the authorisation's full text, which is where its scope and conditions have to be read. This is Andalusia's integrated environmental step ahead of construction, so the project and its evacuation line now count as a factor around Serón.
Almería's territorial delegation for industry and energy has published, by public notice, the resolution declaring of public utility an extension to the list of land and rights affected by file LAT 6860, the 132 kV evacuation line of the Tabernas I and Tabernas II solar plants, in the municipalities of Tabernas and Lucainena de las Torres (Almería). For anyone holding land along that corridor, the extension marks which further plots the evacuation route now affects; the notice opens one month for an administrative appeal and two months for judicial review, counted from its publication in the BOE.
SolarTabernas· AlmeríaLucainena de las Torres· Almería
Catalonia's president opened on Saturday the region's largest solar park, 300 MW installed, at Alcarràs (Lleida); another 100 MW are to follow and battery fields are planned on the same site in future. Its entry into service doubles Catalonia's installed solar capacity outside self-consumption. At the same event he defended the Plater, the territorial sectoral plan for wind and solar generation, which drew more than 12,000 submissions in public consultation and the opposition of over three hundred councils, comarcal boards and civic bodies, and which is meant to pin down the 2% of Catalan territory needed for renewables. That plan is what will decide where solar and wind can go in Catalonia.
The Directorate-General for Energy Policy and Mines has corrected its resolution of 20 April 2023, which granted Elawan Energy Olmedo 3, SL prior administrative authorisation for the «Elawan Olmedo III» solar plant and its evacuation infrastructure in Ramiro (Valladolid). Where that resolution read 50.064 MW of installed capacity it must now read 49.61 MW, applying the fifth transitional provision of Royal Decree 1183/2020. The correction is confined to those references to capacity: the authorised project's headline figure becomes 49.61 MW, against the 50.064 MW under which it had been published since May 2023.
