https://geekyschmidt.com/tags/energytransition/Recent content in EnergyTransition onhttps://geekyschmidt.com/post/2026-06-28-spanishtowersbattery/Sun, 28 Jun 2026 09:58:44 -0400https://geekyschmidt.com/post/2026-06-28-spanishtowersbattery/<p>Spain’s new mandate requiring telecom operators to maintain 4 hours of backup battery power at their transmission masts is a major victory for clean distributed energy assets at the edge of the grid.</p> <p>My buddy Jesse Gary was well ahead of the curve on this. Long before the current energy transition, he wasn&rsquo;t advocating for deploying <em>new</em> diesel gensets, but rather utilising our <em>existing</em> ones as a strategic lever to supercharge investments into the clean energy space. His core argument remains absolute: any generation at the edge has usefulness, and by extracting maximum value from legacy infrastructure, we can fund and accelerate the transition to cleaner replacement assets like batteries.</p>