The 2025 edition of the Annual Conference of the Spanish Committee of the World Energy Council (CECME), entitled “Perspectives on the Energy Transition in the Iberian Peninsula,” took place on October 9 in Madrid. It was organized by CECME and the Spanish Energy Club and sponsored by Edp.

The programme included an opening session with the participation of Pedro Vasconcelos, president of CECME, vice president of Enerclub, and CEO of Edp Spain; a following session focused on the Iberian Peninsula and the challenges of European integration with Daniel Calleja, director general of the European Commission’s Legal Service; and a dialogue session between Pedro Vaconcelos and Ilke Toygür, director of the IE Global Policy Center and professor of European Geopolitics at IE University, where they analyzed the geopolitics and perspectives of the energy transition in a changing world, as well as the role of Europe.

Two round tables were also held, dedicated to addressing key issues of the energy transition in the Peninsula and commenting on the external view of the Iberian Peninsula.

We also had the opportunity to hear representatives in Spain and Portugal of Future Energy Leaders (FEL), from the World Energy Council at a Youth Session where they conducted a joint analysis of the role of the Peninsula in the energy transition using the tools World Energy Trilemma 2024  y World  Energy Issues Monitor 2025.

Finally, CECME member companies BP, EDP, Enagas, Endesa, Iberdrola, Moeve, Naturgy, Repsol and Sedigas shared recommendations though a video to strengthen collaboration between Spain and Portugal and maximise opportunities to turn the Iberian Peninsula into the desired green industry hub.

Please click here to access the Program and Press release y Presentations

To read the conclusions, click here (Spanish)

To watch the video of the event, please visit YouTube del CECME.

The 2024 edition of the Annual event of the Spanish Committee of the World Energy Council (CECME), entitled “ENERGY AND CLIMATE FUTURES: NEW EU POLITICAL CYCLE “, took place on November 8th in Madrid.

It was organised by CECME and the Spanish Energy Club (ENERCLUB), with the sponsorship of Moeve and Cepsa, and the collaboration of the Elcano Royal Institute.

During the different sessions, the energy and climate challenges of the new EU policy cycle were addressed. Among them, reconciling the implementation of the European Green Pact with new demands to strengthen competitiveness, the just transition, the expansion of industrial capacities, the energy decoupling from Russia and minimising the possible risks derived from trade tensions between countries such as China and the United States. Once again, this year, the focus was also placed on the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29), held from 11 to 22 November 2024 in Baku (Azerbaijan).  

The programme included interventions from Carmen de Pablo, Chief Financial Officer, Moeve; José Juan Ruiz, Chairman, the Elcano Royal Institute; Pedro Vasconcelos, Chair, Spanish Committee of World Energy Council and Deputy Vice-President, Spanish Energy Club; Cristina Lobillo, Director, Energy Platform Task Force (EPTF) EUROPEAN COMMISSION; Adair Turner, Chair, Energy Transitions Commission UK (ETC), y H.E. Ms. Nigar Arpadarai, UN Climate Change High Level Champion for COP29, together with other representatives and experts from various institutions and organisations.

Please click here to access the Program and Press release and Presentations

To read the conclusions, click here (Spanish)

To watch the video of the event, please visit YouTube del CECME.

The 2023 edition of the Annual event of the Spanish Committee of the World Energy Council (CECME), entitled “ENERGY AND CLIMATE FUTURES: GREEN INDUSTRIAL POLICIES IN A FRAGMENTED WORLD”, took place on November 7th in Madrid in a face-to-face format.

It was organised by CECME and the Spanish Energy Club (ENERCLUB), with the sponsorship of Cepsa and the collaboration of the Elcano Royal Institute.

For this edition, the common thread was related to the green industrial policies launched in recent years (such as the European Commission’s Green Deal Industrial Plan, the Inflation Reduction Act in the USA or the policies in China), and the new panorama generated around them. A panorama that opens up numerous uncertainties related to their impact on industries on both sides of the Atlantic, climate objectives, geopolitics, or international and trade relations, which were analysed at the event. Once again this year, the focus was also placed on the United Nations Climate Change Conference, held from 30 November to 13 December 2023 in Dubai (United Arab Emirates), the COP28.

The programme included an inaugural session with the participation of Ana Paula Marques, Chair of CECME; Maarten Wetselaar, CEO of Cepsa; José Juan Ruiz, President of the Elcano Royal Institute, and Mario Ruiz-Tagle, President of the Spanish Energy Club.

Two plenary sessions and a round table were also held, with representatives and experts from various institutions and organisations, together with CECME members (Cepsa, Edp, Enagas, Endesa, Iberdrola, Naturgy, Repsol, Sedigas and TotalEnergies), who also had the opportunity to express their point of view on the topics analysed through a video prepared for the occasion.

Please click here to access the Program and Press realease (Spanish)

To read the conclusions, click here (Spanish)

To watch the video of the event, please visit CECME’s Youtube chanel.

The 2022 edition of the Spanish Committee of the World Energy Council (CECME)´s event entitled “ENERGY AND CLIMATE FUTURES: EUROPE AFTER THE ENERGY CRISIS” took place on October 26th in Madrid, with a hybrid format.

The traditional event- organized together with the Spanish Energy Club (ENERCLUB), and the Royal Elcano Institute and sponsored by CEPSA, put he focus on the impacts of the invasion of Ukranie by Russia in the European energy sector and what we can expect in the future as a consequence, from two different angles: the first one, more focused on the geopolitical and energy dimensions and a second part, linked to the previous, which main focus will be to examinate its impacts on the energy transition and the international climate objectives.

The programme included a inaugural session, with declarations from CECME´s members, one round table and two plenary sessions. The first focused on the role of energy in the EU foreign policy and the second on the future of the climate change international negociations.

The event was closed by the Third Vice President of the Government and Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, together with Maarten Wetselaar, CEO of Cepsa; José Juan Ruiz, Chairman of the Elcano Royal Institute, and Mario Ruiz-Tagle, president of the Spanish Energy Club.

See the Program and Press realease.

To read the conclusions, click here (Spanish)

The video of the session are available on CECME’s Youtube chanel.

The 2021 edition of the Spanish Committee of the World Energy Council (CECME)´s event entitled “ENERGY AND CLIMATE FUTURES: WHITHER EUROPEAN GREEN DEAL DIPLOMACY” took place on October 19th in Madrid, with a hybrid format.

The traditional event- organized together with the Spanish Energy Club (ENERCLUB), and the Royal Elcano Institute and sponsored by CEPSA, put he focus in the international and foreign policy dimension of the European Green Deal.

El programa incluyó una sesión inaugural, una mesa redonda titulada “EU GREEN DEAL DIPLOMACY”, y dos sesiones plenarias. La primera centrada en los asuntos clave de la agencia energética global, con la intervención de Joseph McMonigle, Secretary General del International Energy Forum (IEF). Y la segunda sobre la COP 26 de Glasgow, con la participación de Lord Deben, Chairman, United Kindom Climate Change Committee.

See the Program and Press realease.

To read the conclusions, click here (Spanish)

The video of the session are available on CECME’s Youtube chanel.

Inaugural Session
Key issues of the global energy agenda
EU Green deal diplomacy
Cop 26 Glasgow
Address from the Cecme members

The 2020 edition of the traditional annual event of the Spanish Committee of the World Energy Council (CECME), entitled “ENERGY AND CLIMATE FUTURES: GENDER AND LANTIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES”, took place on October 27nd in Madrid.

The digital event – organized together with the Spanish Energy Club and the Elcano Royal Institute, and sponsored by CEPSA- included a plenary session with Angela Wilkinson, General Secretary of the World Energy Council.

The program tackled two main subjects divided in two round tables: Energy and the New Latin American Political Cycle, on one side; and Gender, Climate and Energy, on the other.

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To read the conclusions, click here.

The video of the session are available on CECME’s Youtube chanel.

The 2019 edition of the traditional annual event of the Spanish Committee of the World Energy Council (CECME), entitled “ENERGY AND CLIMATE FUTURES: GENDER AND LANTIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES”, took place on October 22nd at the Cepsa Auditorium in Madrid.

The event – organized together with the Spanish Energy Club and the Elcano Royal Institute, and sponsored by CEPSA- included a plenary session with Jean-Marie Dauger, Chair of the World Energy Council.

The program tackled two main subjects divided in two round tables: Energy and the New Latin American Political Cycle, on one side; and Gender, Climate and Energy, on the other.

See the Program and Press realease.

To read the conclusions, click here (Spanish)

Access to WEC Chair´s presentation.

Access to the photography gallery.

The videos of the different sessions are available on CECME’s Youtube chanel.

The traditional annual event of the Spanish Committee of the World Energy Council (CECME), entitled “ENERGY FUTURES: THE MIDDLE EAST AND REGIONAL ENERGY TRANSITIONS“, took place on September 25th at the Cepsa Auditorium in Madrid.

The event – organized together with the Spanish Energy Club and the Elcano Royal Institute, and sponsored by CEPSA- included a plenary session with HE Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, Secretary general of OPEC.

As in past editions, the program tackled two main subjects – geopolitics in the Middle East and North Africa, and energy transitions in different regions of the world -, which need to be analyzed from a global and multidisciplinary perspective. To this end, top panelists – coming from relevant Spanish and international institutions not only in the energy sector but also in the economic, political, and social fields – participated in the different sessions.

To read the conclusions, click here (Spanish)

To read the program, Speakers´CVs and press release note, click here.

The videos of the different sessions are available on CECME’s Youtube chanel.

On November 29th, the Spanish Committee of the World Energy Council (CECME) and the Spanish Energy Club (Enerclub), in collaboration with the Elcano Royal Institute (RIE) organized in Madrid its traditional annual conference, sponsored by Cepsa. The conference analysed relevant issues of the international energy agenda. The title chosen for this edition was “Energy futures: cybersecurity and financing emerging transitions” with two main topics: cibersecurity in the energy sector; and financing the energy transition in emerging countries.

This year edition also included a Plenary Session with the Secretary General of the World Energy Council, Christoph Frei, and two Monographic Sessions: the first one focused on the project “World Energy Issues Monitor 2017“, which has established itself as a strategic tool to analyze and compare, geographically and temporally, the key issues that define the national and international energy agenda; and the second one, on the “Future Energy Leaders“, where the Spanish youth who are part of it presented their experiences within this WEC program whose goal is to inspire participants to become the next generation of energy leaders capable of solving the most pressing challenges in terms of energy and sustainability.

To read the conclusions, click here (Spanish)

To read the program and press release note, click here.

The videos of the different sessions are available on CECME’s Youtube chanel.

On November 17th, the Spanish Committee of the World Energy Council held its traditional annual forum entitled “Energy: Political Economy and Sustainable Development“. The event took place in Campus Repsol, and it was organised jointly by the CECME and the Spanish Energy Club, with Real Instituto Elcano providing collaborative support.

On this occasion, different relevant issues on the energy domain such as the political economy of energy prices and the energy in the sustainable development goals were analysed. In the first panel speakers analysed the interactions between political and economic drivers and their implications for both producers and consumers. The second panel assessed the implications of the Sustainable Development Goals on sustainability and energy policies at a global level as well as for traditional donors and for the Global South.

The main conclusions of the XXIII World Energy Congress were presented by Claudia Cronenbold, Vicechair for the Latin American & Caribbean Region of the World Energy Congress. The main outputs of the 2017 World Energy Issues Monitor were also shared with the audience

To read the conclusions, click here (Spanish) and here (English)

The Program and press release note are available here: Program and Images

The videos of the different sessions are available on CECME’s Youtube chanel.

You can download the images of the event here.

On November 19th 2015, the Spanish Committee of the World Energy Council held its traditional annual forum entitled “Governing Energy: The Atlantic Basin and Global Institutions”. The event took place in Campus Repsol, and it was organised jointly by the CECME and the Spanish Energy Club, with Real Instituto Elcano providing collaborative support.

On this occasion, more than 350 professionals attended the event, becoming one of the most remarkable events in the sector at national level. Different relevant issues on the energy domain such as the flows of energy in the Atlantic Basin, the energy institutions governance, the state of COP21 or the analysis of the outcome of the project “Spain Issues Monitor 2016” of WEC were analysed.

Alberto Nadal, Secretary of State for Energy of the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, and Josu Jon Imaz, CEO of Repsol, Emilio Lamo de Espinosa, chairman of the Real Instituto Elcano, and Pedro Miró, chairman of Enerclub took part at the inaugural session of the conference. In the same way, other national and international personalities from organizations such as ARPEL, WEC, HIS, Clingendael Energy Institute, as well as other think tanks and representatives from the companies that are members in the Spanish Committee participated in the gathering.

To read the conclusions, click here (Spanish)

The Program and press release note are available here: Program and images

Video Summary of the event and the sessions is available here: Video

On November 20th 2014, the Spanish Committee of the World Energy Council (CECME) held its traditional annual conference entitled “Global Energy: Strategies and Values” The event was held at the Campus Repsol, and was organised jointly by the CECME and the Spanish Energy Club, with Repsol as sponsor and Real Instituto Elcano providing collaborative support again.

The event analysed subjects of particular interest in the current energy panorama, such as the relation between energy companies and human rights, geopolitics and energy and the impact of Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) on our sector. Spanish and international experts, as well as representatives from member countries of CECME, took part in the Conference.

To watch the video of the event click on: Vídeo

To read the conclusions, click here (Spanish) or here (English)

Program, Press release 

Press release note are availabe here: Press release