10 readings on energy, electricity and the energy transition

On the occasion of the celebration of Sant Jordi and Book Day, we invite you to explore recent readings that address the development of electric power, the energy transition, and renewable energy in the face of the challenge of climate change.

📖 Which of these books will you add to your reading list? Share your impressions and recommendations with us through our social media channels. Happy reading and happy Sant Jordi! 🌹📚

01 – “The green gold fever. Geopolitics of renewable energies”
Miguel Golmayo (Editorial Ariel, 2025)

Is the energy transition a sustainable solution or the prelude to a new global exploitation? The green gold rush exposes the hidden face of the struggle for natural resources, where dependence on fossil fuels threatens to be replaced by a “green addiction” to strategic minerals.

Learn more: Planetadelibros.com

02- “Applications of Artificial Intelligence in sustainable businesses. On the path towards an energy transition”
Co-author: Alma Delia Torres (Ediciones Técnicas Marcombo, 2025)

A detailed analysis of the variability of renewable sources and their integration into the electricity grid, while exploring sustainable business models that respond to current demands, will also highlight the role of artificial intelligence (AI) as a key tool for managing uncertainty and reconfiguring the energy matrix towards a sustainable future.

Learn more: Marcombo.com

03- “It’s not about whether it’s green or not, but whether it eliminates or reduces emissions. How and why the energy transition will shape the future of geopolitics”
Nemesio Fernández-Cuesta (Ediciones Deusto, 2024)

The expert vision of Nemesio Fernández-Cuesta, who was Secretary of State for Energy and Mineral Resources between 1996 and 1998, warns us in this book of the grave consequences that climate change will have for Spain if it is not addressed rationally. With wisdom and from a technical and rational perspective, he reviews the possible solutions from a liberal economy rather than from prohibition or austerity.

Learn more: Planetadelibros.com

04- “Energy. A Quick Dive”
Carles Riba Romeva (Tibidabo Ediciones, 2024)

The author, industrial engineer doctor, professor, writer and politician, illustrates the current trends with figures and magnitudes based on data provided by the United Nations (UN) and its specific organizations dedicated to agriculture (FAO), the Organization for Cooperation and Development (OECD) or the International Energy Agency (IEA), among others. The numerical results are indisputable and indicate that we are at the end of the era of fossil fuels and that the energy transition towards renewable sources must be urgently and at all levels articulated.
Learn more: Tibidaboediciones.com

05- “2050. Why a world without emissions is almost impossible”
Václav Smil (Arpa editors, 2024)

A brief and fascinating essay by the world’s leading expert in the field of energy and author of the monumental “Energy and Civilization: A History.” This new work reflects on the current global dilemma: investing 20% % of the world’s GDP in the transition; voluntarily reducing it (or collapsing it involuntarily); or renouncing the 1.5°C climate goal and thus leaving the world to its fate, returning to the gods what modernity wanted to take from them.

Learn more: Arpaeditores.com

06- “The future of Europe. How to shrink for an urgent reindustrialization”
Antonio Turiel (Editorial Destino, 2024)

It is urgent to find sustainable solutions that harness the true potential of the continent. The future of Europe raises the necessary debate about the industrial model and the future that awaits us in this context of global crisis. Antonio Turiel holds a degree in Physics and Mathematics and a doctorate in Theoretical Physics. He is one of the divulgators and scientific leaders on climate change and its consequences.

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07 - “The War of the Batteries. The geopolitical battle for the control of the lithium mines and the domination of the new energy revolution”
Lukasz Bednarski (Errata Naturae Editores, 2024)

An absolutely revelatory investigation into the new energy paradigm of our time and the struggle of the great superpowers to lead and control the next great transformation of global society.

Learn more: Erratanaturae.com

08 - “The renewable superpower”
Daniel Pérez Rodriguez (Arpa Editores, 2023)

A reference work by the general director of L’Energètica, a energy company of the Generalitat de Catalunya, and former executive of the Unión Fotovoltaica Española (UNEF), Holaluz and Fundación Renovables. «An enthusiastic proposal in favor of accelerating renewable energy in Spain, written from the conviction that the entire Iberian Peninsula stands before a unique opportunity: becoming Europe’s electricity generator,» writes journalist Enric Juliana in the prologue.

Learn more: Arpaeditores.com

09- “Electrifying the world: The most radical revolution. Faraday – Maxwell – Edison – Tesla”
VVAA. Prologue by Manuel Lozano Leyva (RBA Libros, 2024)

Much of our progress and well-being can be attributed to four personalities whose lives and inventions are explained in these pages. In the most humble Victorian London, Michael Faraday experimented on his own until he laid the foundation for induction, giving rise to nothing less than electromagnets and motors. Not far away, in Scotland, where Faraday did not arrive due to his lack of training and resources, James Clerk Maxwell emerged as the genius of electromagnetism. Thomas Edison brought these knowledge to practical use with his more than a thousand patents, including the telegraph, phonograph, and the light bulb. With the latter, he wanted to light up entire cities, but that was not possible until our fourth protagonist, Nikola Tesla, the creator of the first induction motor, entered the scene.

Learn more: RBAlibros.com

10 – “We are electricity: The new science of electromechanics”
Sally Adee (Editorial Pinolia, 2024)

In «Somos electricidad», the award-winning science writer Sally Adee explores the history of bioelectricity, from the epic battle of Galvani in the 18th century against the inventor of the battery, Alessandro Volta, to the medical charlatans who claimed to use electricity to cure practically anything, to the most recent advances and their immediate future in today's laboratories, where we begin to see how the medical applications of bioelectricity are developing in the real world.

Learn more: Almuzaralibros.com