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Spain has an opportunity in its upcoming reform of electricity charging to clear hurdles for self-consumption and electric vehicles (EVs), according to national PV body UNEF. The ramping-up of the fixed element of power bills in recent years has made Spain an “anomaly” in Europe, the body said on Friday after assessing the state-of-play elsewhere in the continent. According to the analysis, the country pushed up the fixed share of electricity bills – which consumers pay regardless of use – from 23% in 2013 to 40% in 2019. This year’s figure places Spain well above Italy (28%), the UK (25%), Sweden (25%), Portugal (23%), France (22%), Greece (11%) and Germany (7%), UNEF noted. Spain’s higher fixed costs mean, the PV body argued, that the self-consumption installations the country now wants to support will take longer to recoup costs. According to the association, the 40% fixed share also discourages energy savings and is ill-matched with EV consumption patterns, typically short power bursts followed by spells of inactivity. Into post-sun tax territory UNEF acknowledged Spain’s transition this decade towards higher fixed costs was meant to rake in more tax revenues but said the current political and energy landscape is “completely different”. The country should, the association said, bring the fixed-to-variable ratio of power bills down to 25%-to-75%. The move would merely lead to the status quo before the increases, UNEF added. The calls to bring down self-consumption barriers come as Spain acts to promote renewable-friendly legislation, moving away from the feed-in tariff fallout of the early 2010s. Within its single year so far in office, the government of socialist Pedro Sánchez has presided over the roll-out of sweeping solar goals and major grid ugprades. The country – now a subsidy-free PV hotspot – overturned last year the so-called 'sun tax' on self-consumption, adopting rules in April meant to cut red-tape for these systems. The power charging reform now on the table, expected to conclude in 2020, will see the Environment Ministry and market regulator CNMC set new charges for electricity use.

years. With this offer, China Three Gorges expands its renewables impact in Spain, expanding by now a substantial wind as well as solar portfolio through

Green Solar.   The elevator, designed, developed and manufactured in Spain, uses a mechanism that works with solar energy and optimizes power

Escuderos park in Cuenca shows our great commitment to Europe, to Spain and also, specifically, to the potential that Castilla-La Mancha uses for the

has commissioned two solar farms in the region of Extremadura, western Spain. The facilities have a combined capacity of 24 MWp, and a total investment of

early-stage solar and onshore wind projects in the upcoming grid auctions in Spain, as well as announcing multi-GW ambitions out there lasting. To support its

period, Audax had 245 MW of mounted solar PV and also wind power capacity Spain, France, Poland and Panama. In Panama, the firm has a 30% risk in a 66-MW wind

Of the brand-new setups, it is approximated that just 2% are not linked to Spain's grid. While the majority self-consumption PV capacity sets up, 56%,

economic backers for its Barrica solar projects in the Aragon region of Spain, giving the green light for construction to begin on two 49.5 MWp solar

the needed funds to create its stockpile pipe, which consists of 942 MW in Spain and UNITED STATES. With a total ability in generation by the end of 2021 of

despite limitations triggered by COVID-19 and distribution bottlenecks. "Spain stays among our core markets and also we have actually been able to post solid

features seven projects, all located in Valladolid province in north-western Spain and developed to a well-advanced stage of advancement. Sonnedix stated it

contracts in Europe and South America. Earlier this week, the Spain-headquartered EPC specialist posted revenues of €27.1 million (around US$30

of a brand-new CDPQ system devoted to environment-friendly power facilities in Spain. With an objective of minimizing its carbon intensity by 25% per buck spent

Power's Spanish unit, which was developed previously this year. Ethical Power Spain SL will certainly start initial operate at the site in Seville province in the