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Verónica Romaní Sancho and Borja Carvajal Borrero on the uncertainties in the energy sector | Capital & Corporate
27 de March, 2023
Our partners in the energy team, Verónica Romaní and Borja Carvajal, in the monthly issue of Capital & Corporate magazine, where they reflect on the evolution of the team, their positioning in the market and the most relevant recent transactions in which they have worked, as well as current issues such as the uncertainty of the energy crisis or how the rise in interest rates is affecting financing operations in the energy sector.
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Ministerial Order TED/966/2026 of 15 September: creation of Spain’s capacity market
The creation of the capacity market will ensure availability of power in the mainland electricity system by paying providers that undertake to make capacity available during periods of stress, thereby ensuring the security of electricity supply.
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PUBLICACIÓN
11 Sep, 2026
Public consultation now open on the Royal Decree regulating the requirements for energy sustainability, environmental sustainability, digital resilience and digital sovereignty applicable to data centres
11 Sep, 2026
PUBLICACIÓN
13 May, 2026
Supreme Court rules on ‘administrative silence’ in the electricity sector: “public service” or “service of general economic interest”
The Supreme Court judgment of 10 April 2026 characterises the concept of public service under Article 24(1) of Act 39/2015 as an exception to the ‘double silence’ rule, distinguishing it from the concept of service of general economic interest, which applies in liberalized sectors such as that of electricity supply. The Supreme Court thus concludes that in seeking an authorisation to close a combined-cycle power plant, the ‘double silence’ rule applies to the effect of a presumption of approval.
13 May, 2026
PUBLICACIÓN
31 Mar, 2026
Royal Decree-law 7/2026: electricity grid access and connection measures
The measures related to grid access and connection respond to investor interest in large-scale decarbonization projects, data centres, electric mobility, and energy storage, and aim to reduce the current hoarding of demand-side access.
31 Mar, 2026
PUBLICACIÓN
30 Mar, 2026
Changes to the administrative milestone system for renewable energy production projects introduced by Royal Decree-law 7/2026
Royal Decree-law 7/2026, of 20 March, approving the Comprehensive Plan to Address the Crisis in the Middle East - published in the Official Journal of Spain on 21 March - introduces significant changes to the regulation of the electricity sector. Although it needs to be ratified by Parliament, generally speaking it came into force on the day of its publication.
30 Mar, 2026
PUBLICACIÓN
26 Mar, 2026
Royal Decree-law 7/2026: measures in support of electro-intensive consumers
Reduced connection charges for electro-intensive consumers and the Fund for the Promotion of Industrial Decarbonization will help improve the industrial sector's competitiveness in the current economic climate.
26 Mar, 2026
PUBLICACIÓN
27 Nov, 2025
"Anti-blackout" reform of the electricity system
Royal Decree 997/2025, of 5 November, approving urgent measures to strengthen the electricity system, aims to "establish urgent measures that contribute to a more resilient and decarbonised electricity system" and amends several statutory instruments that govern the electricity system. This paper details the main areas of change.
27 Nov, 2025
PUBLICACIÓN
21 Nov, 2025
Key changes to the electricity sector introduced by RD 997/2025
“Royal Decree 997/2025, of 5 November, approving urgent measures to strengthen the electricity system, has been published in the Official Journal of Spain on 6 November 2025. It will broadly come into force on the date of its publication”.
21 Nov, 2025
PUBLICACIÓN
25 Sep, 2025
Prohibition of arbitration in the single energy market
The Agreement on the interpretation and application of the Energy Charter Treaty gives the force and effect of law to the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, according to which Article 26 of the Energy Charter Treaty does not and could not apply as a legal basis for intra-EU arbitration proceedings as a mechanism for the settlement of disputes between a contracting State and an investor of another contracting State.
25 Sep, 2025