[Chapter-delegates] Solar Shed - Pictures

[Brandt Dainow]

You can’t go to jail for using solar in Spain.  But you can be heavily fined (as in millions of euros), and I guess if you don’t pay, you could go to jail.  

As of last year, Spanish law requires solar power system owners to pay the same grid fees that all electricity consumers in Spain pay, plus a so-called 'sun tax'. You have to pay a tax on the total capacity of your electrical system before it is used equal to the cost of obtaining that electricity from the grid.  You then have to pay a second tax for the electricity you actually consume, if your system is larger than 10kW.   So if your system is above 10kW, you pay tax on it twice.   Installations smaller than 10 kW and all installations in the Canary Islands and the cities of Ceuta and Melilla (these are Spanish territories in Africa) are exempted from the second (consumption) tax. 

The new law also prohibits solar power systems less than 100 kW from selling electricity. Instead, their owners are required to donate the extra electricity to the grid for free.  In addition, community ownership is prohibited altogether for all sizes of self-consumption solar systems. 

Finally, the law is retroactive - meaning that all existing self-consumption solar installations need to comply with the new regulations or face a fine of up to €60 million (double the maximum fine for radioactive leaks from nuclear plants). 

The general perception is the Spanish government hates non-institutional and de-centralised power generation and wants to stop it completely.  Spain is the only country on earth which taxes self-consumption of self-generated electricity.

 

Regards,

Brandt Dainow

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From: Chapter-delegates [mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] On Behalf Of Imran Anwar
Sent: 08 August 2016 19:42
To: Carlos Vera
Cc: chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Solar Shed - Pictures

 

Going to jail for using solar in Spain? 

 

Can you clarify with more details please. I don't understand the logic or rationale or specifics. 

 

Technically speaking, tourists sunbathing on a beach are using solar on their own. 😊

Regards,

 

Imran


On Aug 8, 2016, at 12:55, Carlos Vera <cveraq at gmail.com> wrote:

In spain you get jail and a fine up to 30 millions euros if use solar energy on your own.

 

Comments?

 

Carlos Vera

Isoc Ecuador 

 

 

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