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From passive to active energy markets Spain

July 1, 2025 John Felipe Branch

Spain renewable market evolution, from passive returns to actively managed high performing generation assets

From passive to active energy markets Spain

Spain renewable market evolution: from passive returns to actively managed high performing generation assets 🇪🇸

Acquiring a project in the development phase or an operational asset to outperform the market used to be strongly related to administrative and construction costs and long term perspectives related to the economy and long term trends. Today is about the organization skills to operate the assets and conquering a prompt entry to the market.

Assets with a life span of 20 Years and Return on Investment now could achieve ROI within 7 years.

What make a difference to shorten the return on investment:

• Joining the market soon, there is a real constant market arbitrage opportunity shown day after day at the electricity market.

• Where to place an order? Participation in several markets. Now it is about which market to place the order and where to be active, not only about the pricing.

• Location considerations, location might play an important role to take part at alternative markets, which wasn’t the case in the past.

• Technical Skills: careful calculations taking into account the lifespan, temperatures, degradation etc. of the assets rather than being pricing smart on your market order only and not any more taking production as a given factor.

However, finding the right way to market in projects that take 1 to 2 years to be ready to enter the operational income generating stage remains a challenging task. If you want to enter a 2x to 20x arbitrage opportunity., let me help you acquire battery storage projects and photovoltaics projects to proceed to a hybridization with batteries within short time spans.

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