The production of renewable energy must be added to the
panorama of conventional energy production. 32.47 GW of renew-
able energy has been installed in Spain. These renewable energies
have not necessarily been developed in areas of high energy
demand, but rather where the resources exist. A prime example
of this development is Spain's mini-hydraulic energy sector
(or SHP), which consists of plants generating less than 10 MW.
2083 MW of SHP power generation have been installed in Spain,
and Fig. 16 shows the plants arranged by provinces. These plants
are located where the resource is available through a combination
of flow and waterfall. Two areas that stand out: the northern
provinces of Spain (so-called wet Spain), especially the north coast
provinces with the exception of Basque Country, and the Pyrenees
provinces bordering France. The island provinces, including the
Balearic and Canary Islands, have the least SHP. The hydropower
not exploited as a renewable energy, in the sense of small hydro-
power, is apparently exploited as conventional hydraulic energy, as
seen in Fig. 14's data on hydropower plants.