[Chapter-delegates] Solar Shed - Pictures

[Imran Anwar]

Thank you for sharing that insight, BD! And here I thought I lived in a country (USA) which has a self-destructive foreign policy -- after having come from a country (Pakistan) which always finds ways to turn opportunity into loss... 

But in neither country have I heard such a, how best to put it, moronic, policy that Spain seems to have. WOW.

I can understand taxing commercial entities (not double taxation even then). I can understand limiting how even individuals can install Solar panels if it impacts the ecology and even the aesthetics that upset others or their property values. But to make using Solar a crime! 

SUN TAX? Did THEY create the Sun? Do they pay for the rays to be transported to Earth? Are they providing Sunshine from some government reserves when it's cloudy, or if there's "The Rain In Spain"?

I am surprised that the great people of Spain did not rise up and shove such stupid politicians and policies to a dark place... as the saying goes... "where the sun don't shine". 

[Pardon the colorful wordplay and movie reference].

Shine on, solar users, sun(light) worshippers, and energy innovators.

Regards

IMRAN
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> On Aug 8, 2016, at 15:20, Brandt Dainow <brandt.dainow at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
> brandt.dainow at gmail.com <mailto:brandt.dainow at gmail.com>
>  
> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brandt_Dainow <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brandt_Dainow>
> http://www.imediaconnection.com/profiles/brandt.dainow <http://www.imediaconnection.com/profiles/brandt.dainow>
>  
> 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 <mailto: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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