Spain Privatizes The Sun: Multi Millon Dollar Penalties For Collecting Sunlight

[formercia]

The cost of Austerity: Spain is charging those who use Solar Power for every KW of Electricity they collect from the Sun.
The fine is for those who bypass the system: Bootleg Photons.


Breaking News | July 22, 2013 | 12 Comments


(Elpais.cr) If you get caught collecting photons of sunlight for your own use you can drop a fine not exceeding 30 million.
So if you were thinking that this false crisis caused, the best option was just to have some solar panels that were down 80% at cost and have the opportunity to disconnect from the mains and your bill scam, you can forget.
With terror that have the power to be “destabilized” power consumption (if not disappear), someone against what logic dictates, has proposed burying the photovoltaic industry (which is more necessary now than ever) in a bottomless pit, sometime in 2010 someone has decided to privatize the sun …. yes yes you read right, in Spain totally unlike Europe, who levies a toll on electricity generated and injected to the line … instead to receive profits, but that’s not all, if you get caught collecting photons of sunlight for your own use you can drop a fine of 30 million euros. Such as if it were a drug.
Commit the sacrilege of being energy independent can be very expensive, the sun now is only for the privileged few and the power companies in which directors are former presidents and former ppsoe dualistic party ministers. ”Spanish Photovoltaic Union (UNEF ), which brings together some 300 companies representing 85% of the industry, ensures that, these changes implemented, would be more expensive solar home consumption resorting to conventional supply. ”It prevents the savings to consumers and paralyzes the entry of new competition in the electricity market,” contemplate. ”

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More at the link:
http://govtslaves.info/spain-privatizes-the-sun-multi-millon-dollar-penalties-for-collecting-sunlight/

Link to original article in Spanish:
http://elpais.cr/frontend/noticia_detalle/6/83700

[ladjf]

1. Horrible! nt

[DetlefK]

2. Solar-powered calculators? Plants absorbing sunlight in your private garden?

[JimDandy]

3. Next, they will fine people for

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using firewood to heat their homes, or growing their own food in gardens, or keeping cash under their mattress instead of in a bank. Extreme national protectionism of corporations....who could have seen that coming?

[Igel]

4. Some of what's protected is public.

They're asking everybody to subsidize a public good. There's a fairly large infrastructure for producing and transmitting electricity, some public and some private, but all regulated. It's not paid for.

If a lot of people go off grid then those that remain will have to pay for the infrastructure and electricity prices for those who cannot afford to go off grid will have to increase.

If those people who went off grid later want to come back on, even on an emergency basis, they're going to be using the infrastructure that others have been paying for.

You can think of "mandatory health insurance" as a parallel--it's cheaper to pay for the health infrastructure if everybody's forced to participate. Or you con ponder that those mostly likely to go off grid will be those most able to afford the "placas solares" or solar panels.

[adirondacker]

5. Excellent point. The article makes it out to be anti environment, which it is not.

more like anti libertarian. Thanks for bringing this up.

[struggle4progress]

6. Spain seems to be in the middle of a political fight regarding solar energy, but I don't believe

this article actually captures what's going on

[carla]

7. El Pais

is a Costa Rican newspaper. I couldn't find anything on El Pais in Spain.

[struggle4progress]

8. Thanks!

The Spanish papers I saw seemed to be discussing the government's re-set with utilities