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 […]
Good news for photovoltaic solar energy!
More solar panels can be purchased! And the “back-up toll” will be stopped further Today the BOE published the Order FOM/1635/2013 updating the Basic Document DB-HE “Energy Saving”, of the Technical Building Code, which establishes a minimum photovoltaic contribution of electrical energy in new buildings. This revision of the DB-HE will lead to the banishment […]
The CNE wants to allow users to buy solar panels for their homes
The CNE wants to allow users to buy solar panels for their homes After the draft new Royal Decree that the Ministry of Industry wanted to implement, where they wanted to put an invented tax called “backup toll” to solar installations, including subsistence, it has reached the CNE to bring sanity to the matter. 1st.- […]
The government wants us to pay for the sun
After the biggest cut in the support to the renewable energies sector made by any government in the world, last July 12th, with the approval of the Royal Decree-Law 9/2013, which adopts urgent measures to guarantee the financial stability of the electrical system, the government of this banana monarchy in which we live has proposed […]