Empty Spain:
an opportunity for renewable energies?

Spain has problems with self-consumption of energy, which could be solved by taking advantage of the depopulation of certain regions of the country.

5 min

Albaida (Valencia) - February 28, 2022

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We have collected a large amount of numerical data. According to our calculations, more than 10,000 unique data for the raw processing of the data of which we have filtered to select those data that we have considered most suitable for our case. To do this we used both google spreadsheets and the infogram web page for visual representation of data.

The data cannot be more up-to-date as both Eurostat and the INE publish their reports annually, quarterly and in some cases even monthly. That's why updating your data would be more than easy. What we have done is an annual selection of data that is constant across all graphs for best comparison.

The data have been obtained from Eurostat and the INE, two public bodies that are presumed to be biased. Impressions are gained in a fluid, global, diffused way. The data has been extracted in spreadsheet format and then converted to graphs for more accessible understanding.

We consider the INE and Eurostat to be much more than reliable sources as they are financed by public money and there is no hidden interest behind them. We have decided that they are especially suitable for our project as they all include Spain in one way or another at the same time as all the countries of the European Union. Part of our focus is on the economic power of Europe, which is thanks to which Spain can afford as many public investments as it can be.

For the analysis and visualization we have used the infogram website, recommended by various authorities. The visualization of this form has been crucial in drawing conclusions as no human being is designed to interpret unrelated isolated numbers in large numbers.

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Attached is a document with a compilation of all the figures that have been exposed throughout the news that are also interactive.

In this document you can also download all the data for personal use or research if anyone considers it.

Let's go!

The main data source used is Eurostat. This allows you to create custom databases that give you a lot of versatility while creating them.

In our case we also had to put together different related databases for a better understanding of the whole.

Although only the INE has been used for population research, it should be noted that attempts have also been made to search for data on the availability of land at the level of agricultural unemployment, but in the absence of specific, homogeneous and classifiable data, we have decided not to include them in the work.

Anyway, we've attached the link to the page.