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Managing permits for nest removal on telecommunications infrastructure across Spain

Marc Oliva Carbonell

Managing permits for nest removal on telecommunications infrastructure across Spain

Since 2022, auma has managed for telecommunications infrastructure operators the administrative permits for removing bird nests from towers and sites across Spain: a recurring service reconciling netw...

Environment Utilities

31 Aug 2026 Success stories

Strategic plan for a sustainable marina: investment analysis and environmental roadmap

Marc Oliva Carbonell

Strategic plan for a sustainable marina: investment analysis and environmental roadmap

auma analysed the investments and drafted the strategic plan for the sustainable transformation of a marina on the Catalan coast: a roadmap that orders the port's environmental and energy actions and ...

Climate change Utilities Water

31 Aug 2026 Success stories

Disproportionate cost analysis methodologies for river basin planning

Marc Oliva Carbonell

Disproportionate cost analysis methodologies for river basin planning

auma prepared, for a public water administration, a study on applying disproportionate cost analysis methodologies to river basin planning: the technical basis that justifies, under the Water Framewor...

Public administrations Utilities Water

31 Aug 2026 Success stories

Complete environmental permitting of a solar PV plant: land-use, landscape, EIA and bird study

Marc Oliva Carbonell

Complete environmental permitting of a solar PV plant: land-use, landscape, EIA and bird study

auma prepared the complete documentation package for the authorisation of a ground-mounted solar PV plant in Penedès, for a renewable energy developer: the specific action project (PAE) , the landscap...

Developers Energy transition Renewable energy

31 Aug 2026 Success stories

Detailed design of a municipal agrivoltaic plant: renewables compatible with farming

Marc Oliva Carbonell

Detailed design of a municipal agrivoltaic plant: renewables compatible with farming

auma supported a Vallès Oriental town council across the whole cycle of its agrivoltaic plant: from preliminary design to the detailed design for authorisation and construction, including the specific...

Energy transition Public administrations Renewable energy

31 Aug 2026 Success stories

Energy audits of industrial plants and hospitals under Spain's RD 56/2016

Marc Oliva Carbonell

Energy audits of industrial plants and hospitals under Spain's RD 56/2016

auma delivered for an international certification body a programme of energy audits under Spain's RD 56/2016 at high-consumption facilities: food and beverage plants, automotive factories, chemical pl...

Decarbonisation Energy transition Industry

31 Aug 2026 Success stories

Environmental permitting of three wind farms with a shared evacuation line in Conca de Barberà

Marc Oliva Carbonell

Environmental permitting of three wind farms with a shared evacuation line in Conca de Barberà

auma drafted and consolidated the full environmental and land-use documentation — environmental impact assessment (EIA) , specific action project (PAE) and landscape impact and integration study (EIIP...

Developers Energy transition Environment Renewable energy

31 Aug 2026 Success stories

Before replacing the gas boiler: the three numbers that decide whether an industrial heat pump pays off

Marc Oliva Carbonell

Before replacing the gas boiler: the three numbers that decide whether an industrial heat pump pays off

auma’s method for deciding on process heat electrification before requesting quotations. We keep hearing the same question at very different plants: “does it make sense for us to electrify process heat?”. The honest answer is that it does not depend on the technology.

Decarbonisation Energy transition Engineering Industry

17 Aug 2026 News

Decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors: realistic engineering for a just transition

Marc Oliva Carbonell

Decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors: realistic engineering for a just transition

Cement, steel, chemicals or ceramics are not decarbonised with slogans: they are decarbonised with energy balances, abatement curves and a plan that leaves nobody behind.

Climate change Decarbonisation Energy transition Industry

22 Jul 2026 News

INNOVAE 2026 Programme: 115 million euros for industrial energy transformation

Marc Oliva Carbonell

INNOVAE 2026 Programme: 115 million euros for industrial energy transformation

Last June, the BOE (the Spanish Official State Gazette) published Order TED/569/2026, setting the regulatory bases of the INNOVAE Programme, the new non-repayable grant scheme of the IDAE for singular, innovative energy saving and efficiency projects.

Corporate & Finance Energy transition Industry

20 Jul 2026 News

European Blue Deal and water resilience: a paradigm shift in European water policy

Marc Oliva Carbonell

European Blue Deal and water resilience: a paradigm shift in European water policy

In previous articles we have already covered the new TARU Directive (urban wastewater treatment), the regulation 2026/805 on pollutants or the Catalan water cycle plan.

Environment Public administrations Utilities Water

14 Jul 2026 News

The EESC sets the course for the next reform: 1.2 trillion euros for Europe's electricity grids

Marc Oliva Carbonell

The EESC sets the course for the next reform: 1.2 trillion euros for Europe's electricity grids

On 18 March this year, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) adopted, with 195 votes in favour, its Opinion C/2026/3238 on the European Commission's new electricity grids legislative package.

Energy transition Governance Utilities

14 Jul 2026 News

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