Spain opens 937 MW grid-access process for renewables and storage in Teruel

The process prioritises mature projects and includes socioeconomic conditions for every awarded megawatt, including one full-time job, at least one person trained for 60 hours, 2 kW of local self-consumption capacity, and EUR 10,000 of investment in Teruel’s value chain. The available capacity follows earlier changes to a project linked to the original just-transition tender. For developers, the procedure is a useful signal that Spain is pairing grid-access allocation with storage, local benefits, and coal-region transition requirements rather than treating interconnection as a purely technical queue.