The Spanish Government announced on Friday the extension of the operating life of the Almaraz nuclear power plantuntil 8 June 2030, thereby acceding to the request made last autumn by the companies that own the facility.
The decision, which means postponing by three years the planned shutdown of the plant's two reactors in the Extremadura region, has been published in the Official State Gazette through a ministerial order from the Ministry for Ecological Transition.
Almaraz is the nuclear power plant that has generated the most electricity in Spain's history and currently provides around 7% of national electricity production.
Its unit 1 was scheduled to close in November 2027 and unit 2 in October 2028, according to the timetable agreed in 2019 between the Government and energy companies.
After the blackout that hit the Iberian Peninsula in April 2025, the role of nuclear power and the need to keep these plants running returned to the heart of the debate.
