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How to create a defensible energy balance: the first step before deciding anything

Auma - Genèric

How to create a defensible energy balance: the first step before deciding anything

An industrial plant receives two letters each year: one from the electricity company and one from the gas supplier. With these two figures, and a few more that depend on a conversion factor, 90% of en...

Consulting Decarbonisation Energy transition Engineering Industry Projects

1 Sept 2026

Before replacing the gas boiler: the three numbers that decide whether an industrial heat pump pays off

Marc Oliva Carbonell

Before replacing the gas boiler: the three numbers that decide whether an industrial heat pump pays off

auma’s method for deciding on process heat electrification before requesting quotations. We keep hearing the same question at very different plants: “does it make sense for us to electrify process heat?”. The honest answer is that it does not depend on the technology.

Decarbonisation Energy transition Engineering Industry

17 Aug 2026

Decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors: realistic engineering for a just transition

Marc Oliva Carbonell

Decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors: realistic engineering for a just transition

Cement, steel, chemicals or ceramics are not decarbonised with slogans: they are decarbonised with energy balances, abatement curves and a plan that leaves nobody behind.

Climate change Decarbonisation Energy transition Industry

22 Jul 2026

INNOVAE 2026 Programme: 115 million euros for industrial energy transformation

Marc Oliva Carbonell

INNOVAE 2026 Programme: 115 million euros for industrial energy transformation

Last June, the BOE (the Spanish Official State Gazette) published Order TED/569/2026, setting the regulatory bases of the INNOVAE Programme, the new non-repayable grant scheme of the IDAE for singular, innovative energy saving and efficiency projects.

Corporate & Finance Energy transition Industry

20 Jul 2026

European Blue Deal and water resilience: a paradigm shift in European water policy

Marc Oliva Carbonell

European Blue Deal and water resilience: a paradigm shift in European water policy

In previous articles we have already covered the new TARU Directive (urban wastewater treatment), the regulation 2026/805 on pollutants or the Catalan water cycle plan.

Environment Public administrations Utilities Water

14 Jul 2026

The EESC sets the course for the next reform: 1.2 trillion euros for Europe's electricity grids

Marc Oliva Carbonell

The EESC sets the course for the next reform: 1.2 trillion euros for Europe's electricity grids

On 18 March this year, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) adopted, with 195 votes in favour, its Opinion C/2026/3238 on the European Commission's new electricity grids legislative package.

Energy transition Governance Utilities

14 Jul 2026

Extension of CBAM to processed products: 3,900 new SMEs in Europe's carbon perimeter

Marc Oliva Carbonell

Extension of CBAM to processed products: 3,900 new SMEs in Europe's carbon perimeter

The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) has now been fully operational for six months. The European Commission now wants to extend it to processed products containing steel and aluminium, and the European Economic and Social…

Climate change Corporate & Finance Industry

7 Jul 2026

Atmospheric dispersion studies

Marc Oliva Carbonell

Atmospheric dispersion studies

Atmospheric dispersion studies: when they are essential and how to do them properly If noise is the environmental impact most easily forgotten until it shows up, air quality is the impact hardest to defend once it is questioned.

Air quality Engineering Environment Industry

2 Jul 2026

Acoustic studies

Marc Oliva Carbonell

Acoustic studies

When and why an acoustic impact study is needed: a guide for industries, developers and public administrations Noise is one of the most heavily regulated environmental impacts in Spain and, paradoxically, one of the most overlooked in the…

Air quality Engineering Environment Industry

30 Jun 2026

Green hydrogen in Spain in 2026: between industrial maturity and the challenge of real demand

Marc Oliva Carbonell

Green hydrogen in Spain in 2026: between industrial maturity and the challenge of real demand

On 28 January 2026, the government announced at the 4th Enagás Hydrogen Day the draft bill to create a national hydrogen system and a regulated market in Spain.

Developers Energy transition Industry Renewable energy

25 Jun 2026

New wastewater law: what changes for industry, treatment plants and public administrations with the transposition of the TARU Directive

Marc Oliva Carbonell

New wastewater law: what changes for industry, treatment plants and public administrations with the transposition of the TARU Directive

On 3 June 2026, the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) opened the preliminary public consultation on the transposition of Directive (EU) 2024/3019 on urban wastewater treatment — known in the…

Environment Public administrations Utilities Water

23 Jun 2026

The new European Soil Law: implications for industry and property transactions

Marc Oliva Carbonell

The new European Soil Law: implications for industry and property transactions

On 12 November 2025, the European Parliament and the Council adopted Directive (EU) 2025/2360 on Soil Monitoring and Resilience, better known as the Soil Monitoring Law.

Corporate & Finance Environment Industry

11 Jun 2026

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