Spanish municipality struggles to install solar projects

The municipality of Terrassa, Spain is taking advantage of the sun to bring affordable solar energy to their citizens. The easiest way, is to use the roofs of public buildings to install solar and share electricity with residents. But local grids are blocking these projects due to capacity constraints. Pau Sales, Environmental Technician of Terrassa and Amep (Associació de Municipis i entitats per l’Energia Pública) collaborator, says this discourages local governments from investing in the energy transition. They commit time and resources to planning, only for projects to be rejected or downgraded by distribution system operators managing the grid. This is not just a problem in Spain. Across Europe, more than €100 billion worth of clean energy projects are stuck in local distribution grid queues. These bottlenecks are slowing the energy transition and delaying the phase-out of fossil fuels. Find out more in our new report: https://beyondfossilfuels.org/2026/06... Credit: Noon Films/Fairpicture/Beyond Fossil Fuels