Player2 said:
nanarchy said:
Player2 said:
Nope. Energy companies in Spain have been making record profits for a long time. The "costs not being covered" is a lie because energy companies inflate generation costs as there's no control over it. If you sell your product below its true generation cost you don't make a profit.
The consequence of the terribly planned subsidies (companies getting paid per mw/h from renewable sources) were that some companies abused it and tried to pass energy produced from fossil fuel as renewable energy to make even more money. We even had sun plants producing energy at night.
This new tax isn't only against the renewable sector. It's against the guy who want some independence from Endesa & co so you can't escape from them. Basically if you generate your own electricity from a renewable source and you're connected to the power grid you have to pay for the energy you produce.
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of course you should be paying something if your connected to the grid, maintaining grid infrastructure isn't free even if you never pull a single drop of power from it, it still costs thousands to provide that backup. The problem with solar is unless you are completely self sufficient (off grid), it actually still has much of the same infrastructure costs as if you had no solar at all, this is heavily exacerbated when governments mindlessly subsidise its installation without thinking about the consequences.
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Grid mainteinment is a fixed separate term in spanish electric bills (maybe it's different in other places) so that was covered already. The difference is that now you pay for the energy you produce by yourself.
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my mistake then, if they are already charging you hundreds of Euro's a year when connected to cover that then it is a little harsh to tax on top.
