You are Iñaki Otaegui-Mendizábal, 53, Director of Corporate Affairs at Endeya Generación. You have eight weeks to commit to the just-transition package that will accompany Endeya's announcement of the closure of Cuesta del Carbón, the last operating thermal-coal plant in inland Asturias. The plant employs 240 people in a village of 1,800.
The situation
Endeya Generación operates 14.2 GW of generating assets across Iberia. Cuesta del Carbón is the last 360 MW thermal-coal site running; closure by 31 December 2027 is fixed under Spain's national energy-and-climate plan (PNIEC) and the EU coal-phase-out timetable. The plant employs 240 people directly; another ~150 jobs across the village depend on it indirectly — lodging, restaurants, transport contractors, the small machine-shop, the laundry that handles the workwear.
Closure itself is not the decision. The decision is the package, the pace, and the posture. Spain's national Transición Justa fund (Instituto para la Transición Justa) will co-finance a community programme. The Principado de Asturias' regional government will co-fund. The EU's Just Transition Mechanism is in scope. Endeya will face four more coal closures by 2030 — what you do at Cuesta del Carbón will be cited at every one of them. The board meets in 9 days for sign-off; you walk in with one recommendation.