Comments on: Solar Power is Alive and Kicking in Spain, but Flawed Electric Power Act Needs Correcting http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/28/solar-power-alive-kicking-spain-flawed-electric-power-act-needs-correcting/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Akbweb2 http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/28/solar-power-alive-kicking-spain-flawed-electric-power-act-needs-correcting/#comment-127443 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 12:42:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=39573#comment-127443 As far as I can tell, Red Electrica de Espana http://www.ree.es/ingles/quien_es/presentacion.asp is Spain’s sole grid operator…

This being the case, I would think that power producers, whether individual homeowners or Iberdrola, have to negotiate with them regarding feed-in tariffs…

]]> By: marc http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/28/solar-power-alive-kicking-spain-flawed-electric-power-act-needs-correcting/#comment-127436 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 10:19:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=39573#comment-127436 Dear Andrew,
I have heard that electricty from privately onwed solar panels injected in the grid (of Iberdrola) has to be payed for, instead off getting money from Iberdrola. Is that true? If so, it would seriously slow down the sales of panels….Regards, Marc

]]> By: Akbweb2 http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/28/solar-power-alive-kicking-spain-flawed-electric-power-act-needs-correcting/#comment-125219 Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:09:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=39573#comment-125219  Good on ya! And Spain!

]]> By: Anne http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/28/solar-power-alive-kicking-spain-flawed-electric-power-act-needs-correcting/#comment-125217 Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:36:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=39573#comment-125217 “Spain still relies on volatile, increasingly expensive and polluting fossil fuels for around 80% of its power needs”

Assuming ‘power needs’ is electricity (as opposed to primary energy), this number is wrong. Over the past 12 monts, Spain got 32% from renewable energy, 24% nuclear and 44% from fossil fuels.

Source: http://www.ree.es/sistema_electrico/pdf/boletin_mensual/peninsular/abr2012_v2.pdf

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