Post #2228482

2026-05-08 08:55 UTC

@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under a government infamous for taxing out power stations, the well-known "impuesto al sol" (Article 7 RD 900/2015, repealed in October 2018, taxing all production of solar energy even if for homes which were unplugged from the grid)

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@ghostdancer@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-05-08 09:00

@xerz@soc.masfloss.net Sorry. 😆 @disorderlyf@todon.eu @mbpaz@mas.to @bradr@infosec.exchange

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@mbpaz@mas.to 2026-05-08 10:24

@xerz@soc.masfloss.net @disorderlyf@todon.eu @bradr@infosec.exchange The infamous "sun tax" applied to residential PV only - and industrial PV farms were perfectly happy with it, as it meant less PV production from residential customers, thus higher demand and higher prices in peak PV production hours. The boom in PV is just business. Lower investment, lower TCO (compared to wind etc). PV and wind installed power reached parity in 2024. Installed PV is growing at 25-30% annually, installed wind power is growing at 2-4%.

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@echedellelr@masfloss.net 2026-05-15 07:21

@xerz@soc.masfloss.net @disorderlyf@todon.eu @mbpaz@mas.to @bradr@infosec.exchange iberdrola and lopesan are also here having segregated windfarms mew

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@mbpaz@mas.to 2026-05-15 08:53

@xerz@soc.masfloss.net @disorderlyf@todon.eu @bradr@infosec.exchange Just to clarify, as I keep reading comments along the same lines: no, as far as I know, the (absurd, infamous, ridiculous) "sun tax" did not apply to solar installations isolated from the grid. Article 2: "Se exceptúa de la aplicación del presente real decreto a las instalaciones aisladas"

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