The actual Spanish regulation (RD 244/2019) allows that solar energy production can be used efficiently in the self-consumption mode. This regulation allows to self-consume solar energy within their own house. This opens the option of a significant reduction from the electricity bill amount. Obviously, anyone who is thinking deeply on that might be having some […]
The new renewables Directive or the failure of European dis-Union
The views of the sector are divided between the welcome to the existence of the Directive and the dismay of the feeling that it could have aspired to much more in a historical opportunity for Europe The new European Directive that will lay the foundations for the development of everything related to energy with the […]
II Solar Spanish Forum: Illusion despite the worst self-consumption law in the world
The Spanish solar sector claims a fair law for the development of self-consumption and the return of legal certainty Chronicle Tienda-Solar. On 3 and 4 November it took place in Madrid the second Spanish Solar Forum organized by UNEF, photovoltaic association. They were two days of debates in which the sector has been able to share […]
How a domestic solar power installation works
Learn easily how a solar kit works To understand how solar energy works as a domestic first explain traditional electrical installation works. In any of our houses in the city, the electric company gives us access to your mains, after passing through the meter for electricity supply us with very defined characteristics, AC power (AC) […]
Secrets of Receipt of Electricity
What it was never told about the receipt of electricity The Spanish electricity system The Spanish electricity system, like any electrical system, is complex because nobody escapes us that electricity demand is variable. Our electricity consumption varies throughout the day, throughout the week and depending on the season … It even depends on whether it […]
Spain returns to bet on renewable energy
Last week pleasantly surprised us a new document made public prepared by the Ministry of Industry on the planning of the electricity sector for the period 2015-2020, in which, either by the proximity of an election or by the goals set in Europe objectives for 2020, Spain opened the door again to install new renewable […]
The grid parity has come for photovoltaics
The costs of producing electricity using photovoltaic technology have been reduced by 80% in recent years. “In four or five years could enter the grid 30,000 megawatts at spot price if they received the approval of the operator Red Electrica” says the Director of Photovoltaic Association, Mr. Jose Donoso. By now, more than twenty German […]
The “backup toll” remains unclear
Madrid, 22 July 2014.- The National Commission on Competition and Markets (CNMC) published in the Official State Bulletin (BOE) the CIRCULAR 3/2014 by which establishes the methodology for calculating transportation tolls and distribution of electricity, together with his Justification report. For those of us concerned about what will be the saga of the famous “backup […]
Traditional electrical utilities tend to disappear
The democratization of energy is a fact A few weeks ago we were surprised by a report from the world’s largest commercial bank, UBS, indicating that solar energy is already the cheapest of all-electric energy production. The only drawback is that the Sun is not modular, so we have a need for storage if we […]