energy

Government introduces new rules to "simplify and speed up" Catalonia's transition to alternative energy sources

“We should be able to live with dignity, with electricity and without fear,” says José Luis Jacas

Many locals in the Terra Alta region are fed up with the number of wind farms being built in their area

Those under 16 most affected population, according to the Catalan Statistics Institute (Idescat)

The city now has the capacity to produce enough energy for 1,000 families

Catalonia has the “cultural capital” and the “knowledge” to promote a new model of production, more sustainable than the “obsolete” one. This is the main conclusion of a lecture given at the conference “A new Economic Paradigm for a Sustainable Catalonia’ by economist Jeremy Rifkin organized on Wednesday in Sant Cugat, a city near Barcelona, by the Public Diplomacy Council of Catalonia (Diplocat). According to the sociologist and political advisor, Catalonia has the potential to “lead the way of Regional Europe” to the ‘Third Industrial Revolution’. Rifkin predicts an economic paradigm shift as a result of two merging factors: Internet technology and renewable energies, which will create a powerful Third Industrial Revolution where people will produce their own green energy and will share it on a sort of “Energy Internet”, in the same way we share information today.