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Renewable Energy Tariffs in Spain
- Solarserver: Spain's MITyC approves 923 PV plants--On March 31st, 2011, The Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade (MITyC) announced that it has approved 923 new solar photovoltaic (PV) plants for participation in the nation's feed-in tariff. . .
- Spain becomes the first European wind energy producer after overcoming Germany for the first time--Like Spain, Germany has an incentive system for wind energy based on environmental premiums (feed in tariff), considered by the European Commission to be the most efficient in Europe in economic terms. . .
- Spain: Feed in tariffs, oil prices and nuclear security--The Tsunami following last Friday’s quake was, for Nuclear power in Japan, what the Feed in Tariff cut of last December has been for Photovoltaic Power in Spain. The irony of the situation is that since the Spanish FIT cut, both the situation in oil prices and nuclear security are prompting many a commenter to have a closer look again at renewable energy. It seems that we actually need a long term event to happen in order to be prepared for its negative impact. . .
- Spain Generated 3% of its Electricity from Solar in 2010--Red Electrica reports that Spain generated nearly 3% of its electricity from solar energy in 2010. Despite withering criticism of Spain's once-thriving solar industry, projects installed during the boom years of 2007 and 2008 are producing commercial quantities of electricity.
- Spanish Tariff Revisions Update--The Spanish government was expected to issue a proposed renewable energy action plan in June with approval sometime this summer. The action plan is Spain's formal response to the European Union's renewable energy directive and includes scenarios to 2020 when Spain's renewable targets must be met. . .
- Danish pension funds take on Spain over solar tariffs--The three providers, with some 700,000 members, have been investing in the Spanish solar power sector for the past two years as part of their socially responsible investments. . .
- The State of Play of the Spanish PV sector 2009 by Mischa Bechberger, APPA
- Spain Renewable Energy and High Penetration--Hugo Lucas Porta describes Spain's history with feed in tariffs and proposed policies to meet the 20% by 2020 EU Target. Miguel de la Torre Rodriguez describes Spain's revolutionary RE control centres used to obtain over 50% wind power on some days . . .
- The Spanish solar collapse by Craig Morris--There has been a lot of talk in the U.S. about the collapse of the Spanish solar market this year, commonly held to have been a solar bubble. However, few U.S. commentators seem to understand the Spanish market enough to go beyond the standard quip that the Spanish were simply throwing too much money at solar—and that feed-in rates were the culprit. A closer look reveals what Spain’s real problems were, and where those problems could happen in the U.S. as well. . .
- NREL Response to the Report
Study of the Effects on Employment of Public Aid to Renewable Energy Sources from
King Juan Carlos University
(Spain)
- Snow Job: The nefarious net-effect argument--Recent conservative studies on clean energy jobs miss the mark by Craig Morris in Grist
- Are renewables job killers?--A Spanish study found that the money invested in renewables would create more than twice as many jobs elsewhere on the market. Major media in the U.S. and the UK quickly reported the findings. PV magazine asked economists to assess the study, which previously had not been peer-reviewed. . .
- Update on Spanish ReFIT Summer 2009--Hugo Lucas, IADE, provided two updates on Spanish development of renewable energy using feed-in tariffs at the 7th International Feed-in Cooperation conference. . .
- Spain Updates Solar PV Tariffs for 2009
- New Renewable Energy Decrit 2007 (En Espanol)
- Reuters on New Spanish Feed Law 2007
- New Renewable Energy Decrit 2007 (En Espanol)
- React's Case Study on the Spanish Feed Law
- Report on the new Spanish RES-E payment mechanism by Manuel Bustos, APPA (pdf)
- Spanish Renewable Tariffs en Español (pdf)
- APPA Table Summarizing Tariffs (pdf)
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