Decarbonizing strategic sectors, promoting self-consumption, and reducing energy dependence on foreign sources. These are three of the major challenges facing Catalonia's energy system, but also three crucial opportunities to completely rethink it. To address these challenges and move towards a cleaner, more efficient, and more sovereign model, there is a key element: the electrification of demand. This was the starting point for the third edition of the ARA-CEEC Conversations, a conference co-organized by the newspaper ARA and the Catalan Energy Efficiency Cluster (CEEC), with the collaboration of Estabanell, which brought together experts, institutions, and companies to analyze how to transform the country's energy consumption in a sustainable way.

The government is clearly committed to energy self-sufficiency and is against importing electricity from other regions via very high-voltage lines. Representatives of energy companies were present at the National Theater of Catalonia, and the Minister of Industry, Jordi Hereu, closed the event. energy through very high voltage lines," and recalled that this model has a larger environmental footprint than renewable energies, costing €10 billion annually, which "compromises the country's competitiveness and energy sovereignty."