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2026-05-08 06:21 UTC
@mbpaz@mas.to @xerz@soc.masfloss.net @bradr@infosec.exchange The latter is what I assumed was why it looked like the transition was slow going. I've also heard the time to approve new solar and wind (mostly solar) projects on average has gone down, so it might've just been when the initial push for it to snowball happened.
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@xerz@masfloss.net 2026-05-08 08:55
@disorderlyf@todon.eu @mbpaz@mas.to @bradr@infosec.exchange and yet I'm pretty certain the vast majority of capacity we got ever since is solar, where Iberdrola and friends just went ahead, bought a bunch of land, speedran through the permits and built the new power stations capacity which wasn't possible under a government infamous for taxing out power stations, the well-known "impuesto al sol" (Article 7 RD 900/2015, repealed in October 2018, taxing all production of solar energy even if for homes which were unplugged from the grid)