Press archive
Every column, interview and article by or about Ignacio López Martín that we have verified, most recent first. Each link opens the original publication.
27 pieces · 22 outlets · 6 columns · 4 interviews
Op-ed for Spain's corporate governance magazine: independent directors sit about five years, buyout funds hold for seven, a battery is warranted for twenty. Four questions every energy board should ask each year.
Op-ed on why September 2026's record evening power prices in Spain are no basis for financing batteries: lenders underwrite fifteen years of revenue, not one summer.
Second part of the interview with Ignacio López Martín: how ten-year PPAs with data centres could give Spanish batteries the contracted revenue lenders need, and the risk that the rule ends up as a trade in certificates.
Feature built on Ignacio López Martín's analysis: Spain's 33 GW of batteries with grid access, and how the draft data centre decree's hourly renewable matching makes storage a condition for connection.
Column on Spain's draft data centre decree: hourly renewable matching turns battery storage into a condition for grid access.
Feature on Spain's battery storage deal market built on an interview with Ignacio López Martín: asset prices, grid constraints and the routes to financing.
Interview on why energy storage and predictive maintenance are where independent companies can compete with the large utilities.
Profile of Ignacio López Martín's path from co-founding Cable Energía to Capflex Energía and Eolinet Renovables.
Column on what Southeast European markets can learn from Spain's years of merchant battery storage.
Column arguing that Spain's battery storage pipeline is real and that private equity valuation models misprice it.
Republication of the Energy-Storage.News column on Spain's battery storage pipeline.
Names Ignacio López, co-founder of Cable Energía, as a partner in Supercubo.
Feature on managing the pressure of selling a start-up, with Ignacio López's account of the sale of Cable Energía.
Reports Acciona Energía's acquisition of Cable Energía from Shell and names Ignacio López as co-founder.
Reports Acciona Energía's acquisition of Cable Energía and names Ignacio López as co-founder.
Reports Acciona's purchase of Cable Energía from Shell and names Ignacio López as co-founder.
Reports Acciona's purchase of Shell's EV charging business in Iberia, Cable Energía, and names Ignacio López as co-founder.
Supercubo announcement of its Series A round, naming Ignacio López as co-founder and investor.
Profile of Ignacio López Martín after the Cable Energía exit, as he launches Vida Sustainable Ventures to back new founders with advice and investment.
The seller's announcement of the July 2022 sale of Cable Energía to Shell, naming Ignacio López as co-founder.
Reports Shell's acquisition of Cable Energía, quoting Ignacio López as co-founder and managing director.
Reports Shell's acquisition of Cable Energía, quoting Ignacio López as co-founder and managing director.
Reports Shell's acquisition of Cable Energía, quoting Ignacio López as co-founder and managing director.
Reports the sale of Cable Energía to Shell and names Ignacio López as co-founder.
Reports Shell's acquisition of Cable Energía and names Ignacio López as co-founder.
Reports Shell's acquisition of Cable Energía, quoting Ignacio López as managing director.
Reports Shell's acquisition of Cable Energía, quoting Ignacio López Martín as co-founder and chief executive.
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