Safe, clean, environmentally friendly. Due to technical progress in converting solar energy into usable electrical current and prospective promotion of photovoltaic (PV) systems for electricity supply in public networks by the European Community profitable operation of solar systems is possible in Spain.
Solar power installations in Spain are particularly profitable as the sun shines seemingly always and the feed-in tariff is guaranteed by the state. Equally important: Each kilowatthour of electricity from solar energy minors the dependence on oil/natural gas, not to mention uranium and reduces carbon′s and others′ impact on atmosphere and climate.
Current rules for PV systems in Spain
Legal base in Spain is the Royal Decree 1578/2008 of 28.09.2008. Here the following is set: for solar power from rooftop systems 34 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) and ground facilities 32 cents / kWh will be paid. The maximum capacity of a roof system is limited to 2 megawatts (MW), a ground station′s to 10 MW.
The total eligible service for the whole of Spain will be capped at 267 MW per year for roof systems, of which 90 percent goes to systems with more than 20 kWh and 10 percent on systems with less than 20 kWh and 133 MW for ground installations. For the years 2009 and 2010 were under a transitional arrangement an additional 100 MW and 60 MW approved for ground installations.
New is the register of energy producers (RIPRE) in which each project must be registered in order to get assigned a feed. In order to prevent the conventional practice of breakdown of equipment to bypass the preset power limit, separate projects with the same reference system number are treated as one single project.
Importance of a timely request
The annual available fee amount will be distributed in order of receipt. Applications in the current year can not be approved are automatically stored in the next round of allocations. After registration in the register of applications an applicant has twelve months, in certain exceptional cases, 16 months to the final entry in the register (RIPRE) to obtain. Otherwise, the application is deleted on the remuneration allocation.
The feed is no longer linked to the annual price increase, but to the development of the proposed award of performance. If in a tender round the entire performance award is achieved, the feed falls in the next licensing round, falling below the maximum performance award the feed-in tariff increases in the next round of allocations.
Even smaller plants can be profitable
In Spain many reports on large systems with several megawatts create the impression, photovoltaics would be of interest only to large investors or fund companies. This impression is wrong. Smaller plants will also benefit from the generous funding and are a very interesting investment.
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