As a result, one third of Spain’s electricity is generated from renewable sources. Spanish companies have also emerged as world leaders in a number of renewable energy technologies, notably wind power and concentrated solar. All this have been brought about by generous public funding schemes in R & D and early stage commercialisation as well as fiscal
and regulatory policies supportive of a rapid expansion of the renewable energy market.
The European crisis has prompted significant policy changes that could jeopardise the continuity of existing support schemes and negatively affect the state of renewable energy in Spain. Professor Cayetano López, Director General of CIEMAT (the leading public research institution that operates under key Spanish ministries), describes the present situation and discusses the strengths and weaknesses of policy changes going forward.
Professor Cayetano López was appointed in 2010 to the Director General position of CIEMAT, a Research Centre in Energy, Environment and Technology under the National Government of the Kingdom of Spain. Professor of Theoretical Physics of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, he is the author of more than five hundred articles about science, scientific policy, higher education, information technologies and energy. He has published several books, some technical and others addressed to a more general audience. He has published numerous papers on rigorous properties of the interactions between elementary particles, phenomenology of these interactions, unified theories, supersymmetry and accelerator driven systems for nuclear waste treatment and energy production.
This event is jointly hosted by the ANU Energy Change Institute (ECI) and The Embassy of Spain. ECI combines leading research and teaching in energy technologies, efficiency, policy, law, sociology and economics. ECI Director Professor Ken Baldwin will chair the public lecture.Registration is essential.
This lecture is free and open to the public.
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