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Spanish cuts signal regressive PV approach

Spain: The country’s ministerial cabinet recently approved a law that aims to implement previous PV guidelines. The law, PV advocates argue, brings legal uncertainty, scares investors and punishes existing installations. Arguably, Spain’s latest policy mandate changes the country’s renewable energy landscape entirely, bringing it to a fundamentally new level. The country’s ministerial cabinet recently approved a law that aims to implement previous PV guidelines. The law, PV advocates argue, brings legal uncertainty, scares investors and punishes existing installations. Arguably, Spain’s latest policy mandate changes the country’s renewable energy landscape entirely, bringing it to a fundamentally new level.

Spain’s latest renewable energy RD413/2014 law, approved in June, builds on the former Real Decreto-Ley 9/2013 law, which was passed in 2013 and abolished feed-in tariffs (FITs). “Real Decreto-Ley (RDL) 9/2013 is the framework law, while the recent policies quantify, implement and develop the RDL,” said Paula Pérez-Gándaras, communication officer at the Spanish Photovoltaic Union …

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