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solar power in Spain a lot of people are angry
that spain has essentially privatize the sunday put together a consumption tax
on solar power via a Royal Decree
it taxes people who are gathering sunlight on the wrong in other words you
can pay
to have a professional installation done um
up solar panels and a and a large installation with an official
utility company if you choose to have the install done privately so to speak
you can have to pay you can be forced to pay a fine
up to 30 million euros for illegally gathering sunlight
without paying attacks the tax happens to be
just enough to make sure that homeowners who are gathering and storing solar
energy
cheaper then the state-sponsored providers
have to pay a tax that makes it slightly more expensive
completely disincentive Ising the advancement in creativity of ways to
harness
solar power I think this is a real problem I i understand why the
government is doing it
on the Secretary of State for Energy is being labeled a backup toll
and it's high enough to make sure that it will be slightly cheaper to keep
buying energy
from the current official providers I think this is a real problem
I'm the equipment has decreased about eighty percent
in Spain in prison terms of price to to harness solar power on your own
if you were thinking this is really cheap I'm going to take advantage of
this this tax essentially makes it an I know when
Louis yeah I I can't believe I'm hearing this
I I don't know what types have a taxes like this are
at the poorest citizens a spanner are hit with but this one
is despicable I I can't believe this is happening I mean Europe is supposed to
be
the place where are the place where people are pioneering
in areas like this well I understand that the economic situation in Spain
is problematic right now I was just in Spain last week
and talking to a lot of different people about the job situation about the
economic situation I understand that but
there's another subway to view this which is OK
the government can can recoup or get additional tax revenues by doing this
but the other side if it would be
what about a complete energy revolution in Spain by allowing people to save the
money by
by doing the installations wouldn't without the state-sponsored providers
and turn Spain into a bastion of alternative energy
over the longer term and maybe Spain maybe the economic situation is so bad
that Spain can't whether
the temporary loss of revenue that's going to be good for Spain in the same
way that
well I don't wanna make a direct comparison but that sugar cane and
ethanol in Brazil has been very good for Brazil
and I know that there's still tons of problems but so so it may not be a the
best analogy but
I just completely disagree that this is the best way to go about you completely
disincentive Ising people
from continuing to develop ways to to harness
solar power more cheaply by just saying hey if you do that you can end up paying
the same amount or more than if you just did the kind of tired all things going
with the state providers I completely disagree with that
its yeah it's a lack of foresight and let's keep in mind
now with solar power you it can actually pump
energy that you collect from a sign back into the grid
I but that doesn't really help the government the individual gets money for
that well I hadn't been in the long term it it really can't in the long term a
cat
alright so we're gonna keep following the story there send me your thoughts
there was actually a diesel tax in Finland at one point with the same idea
a because diesel was providing much better gas mileage etc
an additional tax that kind of took away the benefit and it just didn't make any
sense