PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR ENERGY IN SPAIN; From plundering to Democratization The history of solar energy, especially photovoltaics, has been very peculiar in Spain. It all started in 2004 when a Royal Decree initiated the connection of small installations to the network. Attracted by a reasonable return on investment, small installations began to connect to the Spanish […]
#StopStealingTheSun
We are in the following paradox: we have cheap solar panels with which to make our solar kit tailored to our needs, but we are not sure that we were not going to charge a tax for that. On Thursday October 31 debate and vote in the House of the Congress of Deputies to all […]
IMPORT TAXES ON PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES FROM CHINA
Much has been said recently about the possibility of the European Union imposing tariffs on modules from China following complaints from 20 European manufacturers about price dumping and Chinese state subsidies on this product. (Energías-renovables News) It seems that the measures will be stronger than those already approved by the United States, the tariff being […]
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 […]