Featured in Utilities make the connection – 11-2017

Hungry for renewables

Solar in Spain: 2020 is around the corner. In order to comply with the European objectives and after five years of standstill, Spain has tendered 8 GW of renewables in only three months. The announced drop in the retribution parameters forecast for that year not only jeopardizes the 4 GW already granted to PV, but also the solvency of old installations.

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pv magazine

21 Nov 2017

Having been paralyzed since 2012, Spain’s solar industry is getting underway again, after 4 GW of PV projects were awarded to various bidders in a July tender.

After five years of legal constraint to renewables, the Spanish Government is now in a hurry. The bid for 8 GW of renewable energy in a period of only three months could mean that the clean energy sector’s famine in Spain has come to an end. But the explicit declaration by the Ministry of Energy, Tourism …

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