SECONDARY SECTOR IN SPAIN AND THE BASQUE COUNTRY

Lorena Pato,Ainhara García, Ainhoa Martín, Imanol

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SECONDARY SECTOR IN SPAIN

INDEX:● secondary sector in

spain● industry● raw materials● energy sources● renewable and non-

renewable sources

-Activities concerned with transforming raw materials into products that satisfy human needs

● Industry (most important)● mining● energy production● construction

SECONDARY SECTOR IN SPAIN-30% of the population works

-Three important types in the industry:

❖ -The primary industries: transform the raw materials into other materials.

❖ -Equipment and machinery industries: produce tools and machinery which other industries need.

❖ - Consumer industries:manufacture products to sell directly to the consumers.

INDUSTRYTRANSFORM RAW MATERIALS INTO…

Manufactured products: for direct consumption

Semi finished products: to be used in other industrial processes

INDUSTRY REQUIRES 3 ELEMENTS

RAW MATERIALS

ENERGY SOURCES

FACTORS OF PRODUCTION:

● Labour force (employees)● Capital (money)● technology

RAW MATERIALS“Natural resources that industry transforms into manufactured or semi finished products”

PLANT SOURCED - Agriculture (sugar, cotton, linen...)

- silviculture (wood, cork…)

RAW MATERIALS ANIMAL SOURCED -livestock/ farming (wool, hides, silk…)

-fishing

GEOLOGICAL -minerals (iron, aluminium, copper…)

- rocks (granite, marble…)

-energy products (coal, natural gas…)

RAW MATERIALS

ENERGY SOURCES

TRADITIONAL

(Most widely used)

OIL

COAL

NATURAL GAS

NUCLEAR FISSION

HYDROELECTRIC (only renewable)

ALTERNATIVE

(renewable but still too expensive)

BIOMASS

WIND

SOLAR

GEOTHERMAL

WAVE

RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES IN SPAIN

produce zero carbon emissionsSpain has long been a leader in renewable energy (45-69% of its energy

needs from renewable energy sources)

Most of the renewable electricity in Spain comes from wind (first country in the world to have relied on wind as its top energy source for an entire year)

often competes with nuclear for the title of Spain’s top electricity source also developing other renewable sources of energy, particularly solar

photovoltaic.·

Wind power 19.1%

Hydroelectric 11.1%

Solar PV 3.1%

Solar Thermal 2.1%

Renewable Thermal 2.0%

TOTAL RENEWABLE 37.4%

Spain’s renewable electricity coverage through years

WIND HYDROELECTRIC

SOLARTHERMAL

MAIN INDUSTRIAL REGIONS

Problems in spanish industry

-Competitive with other countries

-A lot of enterprises are small or medium

-It have a limited investigation

-Scarcity of qualificate workers

-The technology is behind and dependent

Problems with offshoring

Offshoring is the relocation of a business process from one country to another.

For example: some enterprise of Spain went to China to produce there but they had to came back.

Problems with environment-The excessive use of the natural resources.

-The pollution that it can cause is very big.

-The effects that can to the landscape.

SECONDARY SECTOR IN THE BASQUE

COUNTRY

SECONDARY SECTOR IN THE BASQUE COUNTRY

In the Basque Country industries were located around “Nervioi” river and it was based on the iron extracted from the mines of the region .

the industrialization was possible thanks to the restructuring of the activities, the improvements of communications and the creation of banks.

PROBLEMS IN THE BASQUE COUNTRY

The Basque Country has its own and privileged tax system, the can’t be found in any region of any other federal or centralized state.

The design, management and control of the main taxes belong to the regional tax authorities of the Basque Country.

“Global effective tax pressure” is slightly below to that of the rest of Spanish regions.

RAW MATERIALS IN BASQUE COUNTRY

The industry can be transformed in raw materials, finished, semi finished or intermediate products

The other raw materials that are : industry , energy and mining