If you get caught collecting photons of sunlight for your own use you can drop a fine not exceeding 30 million.
So if you were thinking that this false crisis caused, the best
option was just to have some solar panels that were down 80% at cost and
have the opportunity to disconnect from the mains and your bill scam,
you can forget.
With terror that have the power to be “destabilized” power
consumption (if not disappear), someone against what logic dictates, has
proposed burying the photovoltaic industry (which is more necessary now
than ever) in a bottomless pit, sometime in 2010 someone has decided to
privatize the sun …. yes yes you read right, in Spain totally unlike
Europe, who levies a toll on electricity generated and injected to the
line … instead to receive profits, but that’s not all, if you get caught
collecting photons of sunlight for your own use you can drop a fine of
30 million euros. Such as if it were a drug.
Commit the sacrilege of being energy independent can be very
expensive, the sun now is only for the privileged few and the power
companies in which directors are former presidents and former ppsoe
dualistic party ministers. ”Spanish Photovoltaic Union (UNEF ), which
brings together some 300 companies representing 85% of the industry,
ensures that, these changes implemented, would be more expensive solar
home consumption resorting to conventional supply. ”It prevents the
savings to consumers and paralyzes the entry of new competition in the
electricity market,” contemplate. ”
So if you were thinking that this false crisis caused, the best
option was just to have some solar panels that were down 80 % the cost
and have the opportunity to disconnect from the mains and your bill
scam, you can forget.Spain has “privatized” the sun without consulting
its citizens, without consulting the solar system without consulting the
universe etc. … The possibility of producing your own electricity using
renewable resources solar panels or small wind turbines installed on
private property-is very attractive for Spanish homes. ”Out of every 50
incoming calls per month, 35 are of particular interest in the
subsistence” says Francesc Mateu, manager of Sun Gironés, a company
specializing in renewable energy and pioneers in this sector.
“At the moment we say they have to wait until September or October
that things are clearer,” he adds. The trend towards flat rate on
electricity bills, which increasingly have to pay a higher amount of
fixed and less energy expenditure and specific rates imposed by the
decree of consumption, which has not yet been approved, this alternative
to expensive conventional consumption. The Government has proposed that
the energy consumption is implemented gradually without alter the
Spanish electricity system. To do reserve the right to up and down those
specific charges or tolls, and called “backup”, depending on how the
sector evolves. ”We will pay a toll for the energy received from the
sun” sums Mario Sorinas, Huesca Electrobin company, with over 20 years
experience in solar energy.
Energy autarky is more than consolidated in countries like the U.S.
or Japan. Many European countries have implemented with different
formulas. ”It’s the future,” energy experts agree. Generate your own
electricity with renewable energy and give a break to the environment
and the pocket. There is also the possibility of transferring the excess
energy to utilities and retrieve it when needed or directly sell, which
is known as Net-balanced consumption.
The Government of Spain and it poses. The draft decree of consumption
makes it clear that not remunerate the excess energy is poured to the
network. now, in Spain you can privately produce energy and consume it
in the moment, a mode called instant consumption. The latest legislation
is 2011. Before it was not cost effective because it came out. Cheaper
by up to 80% of photovoltaic in the last five years and the increase in
the electricity bills have become a very interesting saving option in
times of crisis.
The use from dairy farms to supermarkets, nursing homes, restaurants
and a particular consumer. The excess energy can not be stored in
batteries because it is forbidden. When there is no sun or wind, you
have to engage the network and pay the normal bill. There is no official
record of consumption.
Alimarket economic magazine has posted 43 cases. Another file, made
voluntarily by the portal autoconsumidores Energy 21, the amount to
74.Gironés Sol, with 14 employees, is taking the rest with the instant
consumption. ”It’s working well, especially with companies like meat or
hospitality, which rely heavily on cold storage, and in which the light
bill takes at least 15% of their annual fixed costs,” says his
manager. With these systems reduce reach between 20% and 30%
consumption, although a case has been achieved that a drop of 44%. So
far not pay taxes of any kind for this type of power
generation. Estartit The Yacht Club, located in Pals (Girona), is one of
its customers.
They have drawn up a five-year plan for the 20% of its consumption
comes from renewable energy. Currently solar panels generate 7%.”We are
very close to a natural park and want to have a high impact on the
environment,” says Eugeni Figa, its director. Its plans also include
windmills. In Galicia, the Dominguez brothers locking with renewable
wear since 1998. ”We were four ragamuffins” says Manuel.
In 2007 they made their own offices supplying example Sanxenxo
(Pontevedra) with a solar plant. Although consumption has projects in
Spain, most of its market is outside the country in large parks of
Chile, Mexico, Romania and England. energy reform has heated up
tremendously in renewables.
“Of all the possible scenarios, this is the worst,” José Donoso,
president of the Spanish Photovoltaic Union (UNEF), which represents 85%
of the sector’s activity. ”But still nothing specific has been approved
for consumption, already have it loaded,” he adds. Donoso refers to the
increase in the fixed portion of the electric bill, and will represent a
77% increase in this section for a domestic fee-something that domestic
producers can not do without-and a fall of 23% in the consumption,
which reduces self-production.
“Until now, the expense could deliver a 30% fixed and 70% variable
part. You walk 50% -50% so any initiative to generate your own power is
discouraged “, provides Ignacio Cruz, researcher Renewable Energy
division of the Center for Energy, Environment and Technology
(CIEMAT). ”This is a death rejonazo the net balance and energy savings,
“says Javier García Breva, renewable energy consultant and former
director of the Institute for Diversification and Saving of Energy
(IDEA).
This specialist maintains that it is purely revenue raising measures
to enter more than electric. Unesa, the management of large utilities,
has refused to assess the situation of consumption to better understand
the legislative changes.
The Ministry of Industry has not responded to requests for
information from THE COUNTRY. Centre previously known changes the
payback time of photovoltaic grows considerably. If before the reform
was needed 12 years to recover the investment in a residential
installation of 2.4 kilowatts of power now will require 23 more,
according to estimates by UNEF.
The consumer is the most played, since in the case of plants or
irrigation service times have increased five amortization and 4.75
years, respectively. Yet who always works and seek back. Sun Gironés
ensures that its customers are reducing the power contract, which
recorded higher increase in the bill, because the instant consumption
allows them to have their energy needs covered.Another of his goals is
to get the profitable domestic consumption.
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