Must Pay to Collect Sunlight in Spain

[ggen]

First we're fined and jailed for collecting rainwater. Now it looks like 'they' are making money off the sun. At least they are in Spain.

http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/spain-levies-consumption-tax-on-sunlight/52079

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/07/spain-levies-consumption-tax-on-sunlight.html#YvdA9Iu7oJTfj5dY.99



EDIT: Added second link

 

[Risen]

This is absolutely insane!!! :O I can't imagine what they will think of next. Paying a tax for breathing air?

 

[James Henry]

And so it begins in the United States.

On Rooftops, a Rival for Utilities
_http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/business/energy-environment/utilities-confront-fresh-threat-do-it-yourself-power.html?_r=0

For years, power companies have watched warily as solar panels have sprouted across the nation’s rooftops. Now, in almost panicked tones, they are fighting hard to slow the spread.

Alarmed by what they say has become an existential threat to their business, utility companies are moving to roll back government incentives aimed at promoting solar energy and other renewable sources of power. At stake, the companies say, is nothing less than the future of the American electricity industry.

 

[mkrnhr]

This is absolutely insane!!! :O I can't imagine what they will think of next. Paying a tax for breathing air?

They have likely thought about it at some moment. Breathing produces a "CO2 fingerprint" ;)

 

[loreta]

The other day I read that a family was forced to take out their solar panels at their home. Ok, this country is a country, I repeat, of thieves and ... thieves. I don't talk about people, but about how this system is made, the infrastructure political and also mental of this culture. So... You can not, absolutely not, be out of this system, try to economize, try to be independent because the electric companies, that are big corporations of thieves, will loose money. Poor them. They are rich like Croesus, but they don't want to loose money....

 

[know_yourself_1234]

_http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/spains-government-approves-the-sun-tax_100021485/#axzz46r7ZQl7O
Spain's government approves the “sun tax”

also

_http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2015/10/spain-approves-sun-tax-discriminates-against-solar-pv.html
Spain Approves 'Sun Tax,' Discriminates Against Solar PV

And in French

_http://www.europe1.fr/international/electricite-lespagne-instaure-un-impot-sur-le-soleil-2725654
Electricité : l'Espagne instaure un "impôt sur le soleil"

 

[Mrs.Tigersoap]

Here is another thread on the subject:

Must Pay to Collect Sunlight in Spain

 

[mkrnhr]

topics have been merged

 

[Mrs.Tigersoap]

Thank you mkrnhr! :)

 

[know_yourself_1234]

The other day I read that a family was forced to take out their solar panels at their home. Ok, this country is a country, I repeat, of thieves and ... thieves.

(I am trying to make some humor there!)


Looks like that I have to transform the idea

"Setup solar panels on your roof, it's good, earn money!"

to

"Don't setup solar panels, it's bad, you will be fined!"

Where to turn :D