{"title":"Electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy market in Spain","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/es/093-electricity-heating-solar-and-nuclear-energy","scope":"Spain","category":{"cpvGroup":"093","label":"Electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Spain awarded 594 supply contracts for electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy through award notices on TED; the 529 of them that state a value (89.1%) add up to €2.9 billion. Spain imported €2.3 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 2716, 2844 and 2612; all buyers, not only public ones), up 1% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 205 companies have won 1,672 public supply contracts for electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy in Spain, in 1,409 award notices from 587 public buyers.","99.9% of these awards went to companies registered in Spain; the most frequent foreign origin is Italy.","The five companies that win most often hold 68.4% of all awards.","16% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":1672,"awardNotices":1409,"winningCompanies":205,"publicBuyers":587,"awardsWithValue":1527,"awardedValueEur":5801429907,"localAwards":1671,"foreignAwards":1,"top5Share":0.6836124401913876,"singleBidAwards":260,"awardsWithKnownBids":1622,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":93,"awardNotices":84,"awardsWithValue":91,"awardedValueEur":110416930},{"year":2024,"awards":558,"awardNotices":487,"awardsWithValue":518,"awardedValueEur":1690014704},{"year":2025,"awards":594,"awardNotices":482,"awardsWithValue":529,"awardedValueEur":2896526168},{"year":2026,"awards":427,"awardNotices":356,"awardsWithValue":389,"awardedValueEur":1104472104}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"2716","label":"Electrical energy"},{"hs4":"2844","label":"Radioactive chemical elements and radioactive isotopes, incl. their fissile or fertile chemical elements and isotopes, and their compounds"},{"hs4":"2612","label":"Uranium or thorium ores and concentrates"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":2272578394},{"year":2024,"valueEur":2291675823},{"year":2025,"valueEur":2295687375}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Spain — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €192 billion in 2025, 11.3% of GDP (Eurostat). Award notices on TED cover only the contracts above the EU thresholds, so they show who wins, not the whole of that spending."],"allPublicPurchasing":{"year":2025,"valueEur":191764000000,"percentOfGdp":11.3,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":25,"definition":"General government intermediate consumption + gross fixed capital formation + social transfers in kind purchased from market producers (Eurostat ESA 2010 items P.2 + P.51G + D.632)."},"source":"Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/government-finance-statistics/database, retrieved 2026-11-09"},"industryReports":[],"method":"One award per procedure, lot and winning company from live TED contract award notices published since November 2023; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market; values are awarded amounts only (framework ceilings and estimates never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Imports: only customs headings (HS 4 digits) whose trade is predominantly the CPV group, listed under imports.customsHeadings, all buyers, not only public ones; a category that no heading isolates has no import figure (imports: null). https://cresques.com/methodology","sources":["TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu","Eurostat, international trade in goods (Comext), © European Union"],"licence":"CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Cresques, \"Electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy market in Spain\", https://cresques.com/markets/es/093-electricity-heating-solar-and-nuclear-energy, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}