Spanish region approves key energy storage measures

Spain’s Murcia region has introduced Decree-Law 1/2025 on Administrative Simplification, to boost deployment of standalone energy storage facilities and sites associated with solar parks.

Article 6.14 of the legislation modifies the region’s Land Law to consider energy storage sites energy infrastructure rather than industrial use, thus enabling their installation on rural sites deemed inappropriate for industrial facilities.

The new decree law also simplifies the environmental permitting process for solar-linked battery energy storage projects. Such sites will require reports from only a city council and the General Directorate of Citizen Security and Emergencies provided they are included within the footprint of a commissioned solar site – or a PV field which is undergoing permitting – and that the site either already has an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) or is exempt from requiring one, pursuant to EIA Law 21/2013. That law is set to be amended to reflect the new permitting regime.

Article 15 of Decree-Law 1/2025 confirms the principle of “positive silence,” such that a presumption of approval will be extended to energy storage sites in the absence of any valid objection to their development.

From pv magazine España.