News Ferrovial to build three solar plants in Spain Ferrovial will build three photovoltaic plants in Spain’s Murcia region for TotalEnergies and Soltec, and will operate them for the first two years. The plants will have a total capacity…
News Japanese pumps to dewater underground power line between France and Spain French tunneller Bessac is using Japanese pump technology to dewater the land-based sections of a 2GW, high-voltage power line that will cross the Bay of Biscay between France and Spain.…
News Spain’s ‘globally important’ green steel plant gets €60m Spain has approved a €60m grant from EU funds to build a hydrogen-powered steel mill, which the World Economic Forum has described as one of the “five most important industrial…
News Sagrada Família architect Gaudí enters route to sainthood After a 35-year campaign, Barcelona’s most famous architect, Antoni Gaudí, designer of the still-unfinished La Sagrada Família, has officially been made a candidate for sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church.…
News Chinese tech firm plans Europe’s biggest computing centre in Malaga Spanish entrepreneur Javier Romero has signed an agreement with a Chinese tech company to develop Europe’s biggest computing centre in Malaga, southern Spain, news agency Xinhua reports. The deal was…
News Three in race to build Spain’s new F1 circuit in Madrid Three Spanish contractors are on the starting grid for a contract to build an F1 circuit in Madrid, according to business new site Economia Digital. Contractors Dragados, Obrascón Huarte Lain…
News Ferrovial team win €98m contract to remodel congested Madrileño road A team comprising Spanish contractors Ferrovial, Gyocivil and Licuas has won a €98m deal to renovate a 70,000 sq m section of the Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid. The…
News Neinor Homes to build 137 apartments in ex-industrial Basque region Spanish developer Neinor Homes will invest €35m building four apartment blocks in the town of Mungia, a former industrial area in Spain’s Basque Country. The company hopes its 137 apartments…
News BP, Iberdrola to build Spain’s largest green hydrogen project Energy companies BP and Iberdrola have begun work on Spain’s largest green hydrogen plant in Valencia. The €70m plant will be sited on a 20,000-sq-m plot next to BP’s Castellón…
News Alstom hired to make Madrid metro line driverless French rail engineer Alstom has signed a contract with Metro de Madrid to create the city’s first driverless route. Line 6, the one chosen, runs for 24km and accommodates 400,000…
News Spanish company greenlights €3bn hydrogen scheme in Andalusia Spain’s second-largest oil company will start work on part of the Andalusian Green Hydrogen Valley scheme, which will install enough electrolysers to turn 2GW of wind and solar energy into…
News German engineer hired to study Gibraltar tunnel idea German tunnel specialist Herrenknecht will study the feasibility of building a high-speed rail tunnel between Morocco and Spain, Arabian Gulf Business Insight (AGBI) reports. Spain and Morocco have been considering…
News Madrid to get massive solar farm for AI datacentres Swiss energy company Edisun has announced plans to build a 941MW solar park northwest of Madrid to provide power for AI datacentres. The Fuencarral project is intended to meet the…
News Spanish MP says Peppa Pig ‘discourages women from entering construction’ Marta Serrano, Spain’s secretary general for land transportation, has blamed children’s television programmes such as Paw Patrol and Peppa Pig for the lack of women taking up construction jobs, because…
News Spain’s new pumped storage plant to supply 10 million people Spanish utility Iberdrola is planning the largest pumped storage plant in Europe. The Conso II project, earmarked for Ourense, Galicia, will cost more than €1.5bn, website Enerdata reports. The plant…
News EU bank lends €1bn for green power schemes in ‘empty Spain’ The European Investment Bank (EIB) will lend Spanish utility Naturgy €1bn to increase renewable power generation by 2.3GW, enough to power over a million homes. Naturgy will use the money…
News Europe funds €900m recovery effort for flood-hit Spain The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced an initial €900m recovery and reconstruction package for Spain following floods in the provinces of Cuenca and Valencia that led to more than…
News Spanish and Swiss companies set to help India upgrade its rail network India has signed memorandums of understanding with the governments of Spain and Switzerland aimed at increasing the number of foreign companies working on its rail modernisation projects. Indian Railways signed…