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Plenty to go around

At the end of May 2018, events in Spanish politics took a turn without precedent since the country embraced democracy: a motion of censure against the conservative PP (Partido Popular) by an all-but unified opposition received 180 votes in favour, 169 votes against, and 1 abstention. Pedro Sánchez, leader of the socialist PSOE (Partido Socialista Obrero Español), took up the post of Prime Minister that Mariano Rajoy had held for the previous six years. For the PV sector, the change could not have come too soon.

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Pilar Sánchez Molina

13 May 2019

The 500 MW Nuñez de Balboa PV plant, under construction in Spain’s south west. The project is set to come online in 2020. | Image: Iberdrola

The two energy ministers in the government of Mariano Rajoy will be best remembered for their controversial measures and proposals, such as bringing in the sun tax, gifting the electricity oligopoly enormous power, hugely facilitating fracking, and proposing sweeping cuts to renewables’ remuneration that reduced the returns generated by plants already in operation before the …

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