Spain is the European country that receives more solar radiation. But energy policies, cuts and a nonsense ‘sun tax’ are dynamiting the photovoltaic electric production in Spain, even though it had everything to succeed.
Although prices of solar photovoltaic technology have dropped 80% in the last five years, allowing many cities and towns in the rest of Europe to fill their rooftops with photovoltaic panels, in Spain the Government has discouraged people to produce their own clean energy at home, as it has approved an unfair tax that according to almost all environmental organizations is a hard obstacle to renewable energy, energy saving and efficiency.
This ‘sun tax’ forces people who have installed photovoltaic panels in their homes to pay a fee for being connected to the general power grid, even if they are not using it. The more panels they have, the more they pay. And they don’t have any compensation for the energy that they produce and send to the general grid because is not used.
We can not allow the Government always give advantage to the interests of large electric companies instead of consumers. Join me and ask the Government of Spain to change this unfair regulation and start promoting self-produced clean energy as in other European countries, avoiding charging any fees to small particular photovoltaic users and paying them for unused energy sent into the grid.
