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 […]
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 […]
Photovoltaic solar energy in Spain, the plundering of democratization
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 […]