Roberto García Merino, CEO of Redeia – the parent company of Red Eléctrica – earned €2.054 million in 2025, a 165% increase compared to the €774,000 he received in 2024, after adding a long-term incentive, according to the compensation report published by the Spanish National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) this Thursday. For Redeia, the company that operates the electricity transmission network in Spain, the year was marked by the massive blackout of April 28. However, excluding the incentive, the year-on-year change in compensation would be 8.7%. The average compensation for Redeia employees in 2025 was €75,000, in line with the previous year. For her part, the company's president, Beatriz Corredor, received a salary of €546,000 in 2025, the same amount as in 2024. In fact, Corredor has been receiving the same annual salary for five years.

The legal battle between Iberdrola and Redeia, the parent company of Red Eléctrica (REE), the system operator, over the massive blackout of April 28th of last year, has been reignited. A Madrid court has accepted the complaint for unfair competition filed by the electricity company chaired by Ignacio Sánchez Galán, alleging that Redeia, although not explicitly naming it, held it responsible for the blackout, according to reports. El País-Cinco Días And ARA has been able to confirm this.

In an increasingly unstable world, the First Vice-President and Commissioner for Competition of the European Commission, Teresa Ribera, is clear on the matter: "We are shaken by the feeling that the world order is faltering, and that the use of energy and raw materials and the dependencies between different powers are becoming a geopolitical weapon," she stated in Barcelona, ​​at an event organized by the Foundation for Energy and Environmental Sustainability (Funseam). But she was quick to point the way forward: "We must be aware of the progress we have made. The future is not written, but we must not let ourselves be swayed by the noise and pessimism." For the former Vice-President and Socialist Minister, the capacity for reaction of the different member states is key, especially given the major shock that Europe experienced with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which highlighted the excessive energy dependence and the response of severing the supply chain. While in 2022, 45% of the natural gas consumed by Europe came from Russia, this figure has now fallen to 12%.

Trinidad Sala has held the position of Redeia's delegate in Catalonia for just over a year, but in that time she has had to take on the management of important projects closely linked to the country's economic and social development and the energy transformation of its main companies. According to Sala, "we are boosting the Catalan economy with electrical infrastructure essential for the country's future."

Endesa and Naturgy expect to close 2025 with record profits, or at least that's what both companies hinted at this Wednesday, coinciding with the presentation of their results for the first nine months of the year, that is, between January and September. Specifically, both the electricity and gas companies are on track to reach their target of €2 billion this year, thus avoiding the shock of the massive power outage on April 28th that left the Iberian Peninsula in darkness for hours. Endesa earned €1.711 billion between January and September of this year, 22% more than in the same period last year, as the company reported this Wednesday to the Spanish National Securities Market Commission (CNMV). This result almost matches the profit for all of 2024, when it posted a gain of €1.888 billion.

For several years now, the nuclear shutdown has lost momentum, with a war in Ukraine upsetting the order of priorities, opening the door to extending the life of this energy and leaving behind the widespread commitment to speeding up the energy transition. In this context, the electricity companies, owners of the nuclear power plants, are calling for a rethinking of the roadmap they agreed upon, which provided for a shutdown schedule between 2027 and 2035.

Iberdrola will take legal action against the president of Red Eléctrica España (REE), Beatriz Corredor, after she attributed the massive power outage of April 28 to the non-compliance of conventional groups. This was confirmed to Efe by legal sources and reported on Monday by the newspaper The World, the electricity company maintains that Corredor's statements on September 11 constitute an "attack on its honor," although the president of the Spanish electricity system operator did not mention the company at any time.

Revolving doors between politicians and energy companies are nothing new. Despite the criticism that Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) has leveled at the Congress of Deputies, where it has rebuked the members of the junts who "put their friends in Spanish companies" - words that Gabriel Rufián directed at the Junts spokesperson in Congress, Míriam Nogueras - or also said: "Press conferences with the flag," it is a former ERC politician, Albert Castellanos, former right-hand man of Oriol Junqueras and Secretary of Business during the government of Pere Aragonès, who enters the council of Redeia, the parent company of Red Eléctrica. Beyond this signing, a Telefónica executive joins the board of Círculo Ecuestre, and Barça has a new communications director.