Energy policy: European challenges, Spanish answers

This Policy Paper aims to offer suggestions about energy policy in Spain. To do so, it first makes an analysis of policy objectives, targets and instruments from a theoretical point of view.

Once the main trends in Europe are described, the Policy Paper carries out an overview of the characteristics of the Spanish energy sector as well as of the evolution of the liberalisation process.

The last section of this Policy Paper suggests that the Spanish energy policy must be ambitious but flexible, focusing on some special aspects such as competitiveness, final demand and the need for a real liberalisation.