Spain's center-right government has been perhaps the most hostile to the solar industry among European nations, including sweeping retroactive changes to the nation's feed-in tariff which have been challenged in Spanish and European courts. Today Spain's Council of Ministers hit a new low by approving fees on solar self-consumption, which have been dubbed the "sun tax". While full details will not be out until the full text is published in the Official Gazette, Spain's Energy Ministry indicated (in Spanish) that there will be charges on both existing and new installations, both on a capacity and generation level. The ministry says that these are not taxes or compensation for utility losses, but contributions to overall system costs. These new fees will begin to be levied in six month's time. PV arrays under 10 kW and systems not on the Spanish mainland ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...