{"id":30087,"date":"2019-07-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fundacionbankinter.org\/noticias\/the-more-energy-consumption-the-more-economic-development\/"},"modified":"2019-07-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T10:00:00","slug":"the-more-energy-consumption-the-more-economic-development","status":"publish","type":"noticias","link":"https:\/\/www.fundacionbankinter.org\/en\/news\/the-more-energy-consumption-the-more-economic-development\/","title":{"rendered":"The more energy consumption, the more economic development?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Juan Lema<\/a> is a professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Santiago de Compostela and president of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Galicia. In addition, it collaborates with the Akademia innovation programme<\/g> of the Bankinter Innovation Foundation. In this interview, Juan guides us through the challenges presented by innovation in today’s energy sector.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

For Juan, the energy sector is a key element for current innovation<\/strong>, since this sector innovates not only in the research of new technologies, but also provides new capabilities to existing ones. So much so, that energies that barely existed 15 years ago, <\/strong>such as wind or photovoltaic energy, are today renewable energies that take up a large part of the market and current energy demand.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Energy consumption has a direct correlation with the economy of any country, the more energy consumption, the more economic development. <\/strong>But as Juan points out, although this correlation is evident and also exists with other indicators such as life expectancy or the human development index, there comes a point where these indicators do not continue to increase.<\/strong> For this reason, he points out, in certain world regions<\/strong> there is a superfluous consumption of energy<\/strong> that we must control.<\/p>\n

In this interview, Juan Lema also gives us a preview of the main challenges<\/strong> that, according to his experience, energy and its sector<\/strong> currently face. Challenges that he organizes in: <\/p>\n