Editing Andalusia (section)

===Energy infrastructure===
[[File:Andasol Guadix 2.jpg|thumb|Andasol solar power facility north of Sierra Nevada]]
The lack of high-quality [[fossil fuel]]s in Andalusia has led to a strong dependency on [[petroleum]] imports. Still, Andalusia has a strong potential for the development of [[renewable energy]], above all [[wind energy]]. The Andalusian Energy Agency established in 2005 by the autonomous government, is a new governmental organ charged with the development of energy policy and provision of a sufficient supply of energy for the community.<ref name="infra" />

The infrastructure for production of [[electricity]] consists of eight large [[thermal power station]]s, more than 70 [[hydroelectricity|hydroelectric]] power plants, two [[wind farm]]s, and 14 major [[cogeneration]] facilities. Historically, the largest Andalusian business in this sector was the [[Compañía Sevillana de Electricidad]], founded in 1894, absorbed into [[Endesa (Spain)|Endesa]] in 1996.
The [[Solar power tower]] [[PS10 solar power tower|PS10]] was built by the Andalusian firm [[Abengoa]] in [[Sanlúcar la Mayor]] in the province of Seville, and began operating in March 2007. It is the largest existing solar power facility in Europe.<ref>[http://www.renewableenergymagazine.com/paginas/Contenidosecciones.asp?ID=660&Tipo=&Nombre=Renewable%20energy%20news Abengoa opens the first EU commercial concentrating Solar Power Tower] {{webarchive| url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090609193111/http://www.renewableenergymagazine.com/paginas/Contenidosecciones.asp?ID=660&Tipo=&Nombre=Renewable%20energy%20news |date=9 June 2009 }}, RenewableEnergyMagazine.com, 2 April 2007.</ref> Smaller solar power stations, also recent, exist at [[Cúllar]] and [[Galera, Granada]], inaugurated by [[Geosol]] and [[Caja Granada]]. Two more large thermosolar facilities, [[Andasol|Andasol I y II]], planned at Hoya de [[Guadix]] in the province of Granada are expected to supply electricity to half a million households.<ref name="Andasol2">[http://www.energias-renovables.com/paginas/Contenidosecciones.asp?ID=10880&Tipo=&Nombre=Noticias La central solar de alta temperatura de Andasol 2 ya ha puesto la primera piedra] {{webarchive| url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928001704/http://www.energias-renovables.com/paginas/Contenidosecciones.asp?ID=10880&Tipo=&Nombre=Noticias |date=28 September 2007 }}, Energías Renovables, 12 July 2007.</ref> The [[Plataforma Solar de Almería]] (PSA) in the Tabernas Desert is an important center for the exploration of the solar energy.<ref>[http://www.dlr.de/tt/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-2881/4512_read-6631/ Plataforma Solar de Almeria] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110926212118/http://www.dlr.de/tt/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-2881/4512_read-6631/ |date=26 September 2011 }}, Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, German Aerospace Center. Retrieved 11 December 2009.</ref>

The largest wind power firm in the region is the [[Sociedad Eólica de Andalucía]], formed by the merger of [[Planta Eólica del Sur S.A.]] and [[Energía Eólica del Estrecho S.A.]]

The [[Medgaz]] gas pipeline directly connects the Algerian town of [[Béni Saf]] to Almería.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.diariodealmeria.es/finanzasyagricultura/Medgaz-une-continentes-Garcia-Lorca_0_1369963357.html |website=[[Diario de Almería]] |title=Medgaz une dos continentes con la obra firmada por García Lorca |date=4 July 2019 |first=Elio |last=Sancho}}</ref>