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Herodes versus the sun

Spain: The Spanish government has imposed new restrictions on installed solar power systems. Remunerated solar electricity is to be limited retroactively. Whereas the government wants to save a lot of money, the PV branch fears a wage of bankruptcy among ten thousands of small investors who will be then unable to pay back their loans.

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pv magazine

10 Feb 2011

Last Christmas was no time for gifts for the photovoltaic industry in Spain. Although the government had decided just a few weeks earlier to cut the feed-in tariffs (FIT) for solar electricity by up to 45 per cent, the Council of Ministers applied the axe to the solar power branch again at the end of …

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