Informative sessions on energy

Red Eléctrica contributes to the dissemination of knowledge regarding the functioning of the electricity system by encouraging participation in conferences and training/informative sessions.

In 2019, Red Eléctrica organized a series of seminars in collaboration with the Spanish Association for Evaluating Environmental Impact (AEEIA) as a way of creating spaces to analyse and share experiences about environmental evaluation from the perspectives of public administrations, business, universities and other bodies.

On 29 March 2019, the headquarters of IHOBE in Bilbao hosted the seminar “The repercussions of plans, programmes and projects on the Natura 2000 network in environmental impact evaluation documents”, in collaboration with the University of the Basque Country and the University College of Dublin. It dealt with important topics for evaluation the repercussions and new aspects of the Natura 2000 network.

Later, on 19 June 2019, there was the V edition of the Seminar on Environmental Evaluation Legislation in the Autonomous Communities, with the collaboration of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Sustainable Development of the Regional Government of Andalusia, which was held at the Red Eléctrica Campus, in Madrid.

Eleven autonomous communities were represented at this session, with more than fifty people attending. The act was also attended by the Sub-director General for Environmental Evaluation of the Ministry of Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Eugenio Domínguez Collado, and the Head of the Environmental Evaluation Service of the Government of Andalusia, Jorge Juan Feijóo. Red Eléctrica took part as a panel member, explaining the company’s methods for responding to new legislative demands.