On February 12, Madrid marks the starting point of the Future Energy Summit 2026 tour.
It makes sense for the journey to begin in Spain. The country has consolidated its position as one of Europe’s largest and most dynamic renewable energy markets, closing 2024 with more than 50% of its electricity generation coming from renewable sources. The conversation has shifted from installing capacity to a more demanding question: how to sustain an electricity system that is increasingly variable, electrified, and complex—where digitalization and artificial intelligence are becoming essential for grid management, demand forecasting, and optimizing increasingly volatile energy markets.
The sector is no longer in announcement mode. It is in decision mode.
Who pays for flexibility when solar and wind shape the price curve?
When does energy storage stop being a pilot and become infrastructure?
Where are the real bottlenecks: grids, permitting, financing?
How prepared are electricity markets for accelerating electrification?
How will a power system that is more complex, digital, and data-driven be managed?
Who assumes the risk when demand grows faster than planning?
FES Iberia brings together utilities, developers, manufacturers, technologists, banks, funds, and regional governments in a one-day meeting focused on renewables, storage, and investment. More than 40 speakers and hundreds of industry executives will take part in this first stop of the international Future Energy Summit calendar.
Madrid is a European conversation with direct impact on Latin America. Investment, technology, regulatory models, and capital increasingly flow between Spain and the region. The tour will continue this year in Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Chile, and Brazil, carrying shared questions across markets moving at different speeds.
The energy calendar of 2026 begins in Madrid. And with it, the decisions that will shape the year.
