#Spain

A cruise ship linked to a hantavirus outbreak reached Tenerife with more than 140 people aboard, prompting a tightly managed evacuation overseen by Spanish authorities and the WHO.

Spain has added 20 new energy community projects, bringing its national total to 262 and extending a local clean-energy model that now spans solar, storage, efficiency, and mobility solutions.

Spain is preparing to finalize support for seven pumped-hydro storage projects under its recovery plan, directing €165 million to facilities that together account for more than 4.2 GW of capacity and over 8 GWh of energy

Renault said it will halt plans to assign new vehicle production to its Spanish plants after failing to reach an agreement with unions on pay and working conditions.

A new analysis says expanding wind and solar helped cut Spain’s electricity bills by 24.2% over two years while sharply reducing exposure to gas-price shocks.

Researchers in Spain report that pairing agrivoltaics with regulated deficit irrigation reduced tomato water use by about 50% while preserving productive land use through simultaneous farming and solar generation.

French cleantech company Rosi has raised more than €20 million to expand photovoltaic recycling and build a new 10,000-tonne-per-year processing facility in Teruel, Spain.

A new manufacturing partnership around Bihar Batteries adds momentum to sodium-ion development in Europe as the technology moves closer to larger-scale commercialization.

One year after Spain’s nationwide outage, battery deployment, grid rules and system planning are shifting quickly as officials respond to vulnerabilities exposed by the event.

Researchers analyzing a medieval burial in a much older Stone Age monument in Spain have identified the man’s genetic ancestry, while his religious identity remains unresolved.

Spain is rethinking how it responds to coastal erosion after winter storms repeatedly wipe out stretches of shoreline and undermine summer reconstruction efforts.