Reguant interviewed by La Vanguardia about the challenges facing Catalonia’s energy transition

09-03-2025: Reguant interviewed by La Vanguardia on Catalonia’s resistance to renewables and its impact on the energy transition.
Mar Reguant highlights Catalonia's slow energy transition, attributing it to local and environmentalist resistance to renewables, and stresses the need to overcome these barriers for Europe’s energy autonomy.
At the interview, the expert in enery economics and climate change highlights the slow pace of the energy transition in Catalonia, attributing it to local resistance and the lack of support from some environmentalist groups for renewable energy projects.
While in other regions environmentalists lead renewable energy initiatives, in Catalonia, opposition persists due to concerns about landscape preservation and environmental impact.
Reguant emphasizes the need for Europe to achieve energy autonomy and stresses the importance of overcoming these hesitations to advance the transitioSSQDSn toward more sustainable energy sources.