Anpier delegate in the Community of Valencia, Lluís Calatayud, has condemned an institutionalized “fraud” and is still pending compensation. 62,000 pioneer families who took the first steps development and production of photovoltaic solar energy in spain. In this sense, he claims an “invented” rate of return is attributed alongside generalized cuts in subsidy per hour production.
– A commitment to sustainability appears to be emerging as the only viable option to ensure a cross-optimal future. What is the role of photovoltaic energy in this transition?
this photovoltaic energy is very necessary. It started to get very expensive about 15 years ago, when about 62,000 families opted for it by obeying the socialist government of José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. Since the required technology was very expensive, they invested in photovoltaic energy at astronomical prices determined by the market. However, to mature photovoltaic generation and produce clean energy It was a mandate of the European Union whose aim was to initiate a transition urgently, and for this it was vital to begin developing photovoltaics, the best generation technology available today, but which would not yet be available without the efforts of the United States. pioneers.
– How do you evaluate the cooperation in public and private sector investments in the so-called “renewable energy resources maturation process”? How do retroactive cuts affect the Valencia energy transition?
To advance this transition, Europe invest in the creation of photovoltaic plants as a solution for the future in the first years of the new millennium. In 2004, Aznar’s administration passed a Royal Decree to pay for the electricity produced. Only four plaques were placed with this bold call. There was no answer. Zapatero modified it and converted the percentage to a certain amount. Together with IDAE, an advertising campaign was launched saying “the sun can be yours”. Patriotism was called to fulfill its European duty.
Approximately 75% of the 25.000.000 Euro investment was obtained from the loans requested by the banks. The slogan was very clear, it said what we would charge for production. The truth is that in 2010, tariff deficit problem, we suffered a cut of 700 million euros in three years. In return, we were able to extend the right to wages or collections to five years, to cover the deduction in parliamentary discussion. In the Community of Valencia, the incidence is around 11% and affects 6,500 families.
it was a beginning backslashespecially deep when the Rajoy government implemented some cuts 45% of income What a BOE founded and motivates our investment efforts is a bane for all of us.
– What gaps do economies of scale present in this process?
Making balloons with photovoltaic projects is a big inconvenience. Spain advocates the production of 30,000 MWh of photovoltaic energy, of which 100,000 projects are already presented. In the case of the Community of Valencia, there are more than 12,000 MWp projects in the table for a forecast by the Ministry of 6,000 MWp in 2030. The real problem is There are more projects than primary needs. there are many disorder and lack of planning by the administration. I know Consell is working hard, but it’s not enough. There are several decrees that try to address this trend, but no authorization is issued and built. Solution must pass pushing small plants acting as a distributed generator near the consumer.
– They denounce from Anpier that one of the biggest injustices committed by arbitration courts is to ascribe a 7.39% profitability that does not fit the real indicators. What is the X-ray of the Community of Valencia?
That profitability is a formula that no one can understand or explain. These values are based on invented data and are therefore uncertain. Cuts are permanent, with an average decrease of 30% of our corresponding. International plaintiffs, investors like us in factories like ours, win international prizes and will receive compensation while no compensation is offered to us. A real nonsense: two injustices and our expulsion for the same truth as the aggravating situation that the stranger enjoys.
– Why is it so important for SMEs and small photovoltaic “families” to lead the energy transition against their large owners?
It is very important to bet. small facilities with distributed production and ownership. The environmental impact is positive and wealth is created, therefore more equitable at the social level. The energy generation model is different from that of big companies that don’t care about the environmental, landscape impact… How much does it cost to take a kW from Cofrentes to Valencia? All factors should be analyzed. It will be more beneficial for Valencia if the roofs are filled with the maximum number of slabs, so that the energy is produced where it is consumed. Local energy communities are a great asset, but rational and participatory soil plants are also necessary. That each population has its own plant.
– What can be done to facilitate citizens’ access to photovoltaic energy?
Non-regulated measures such as self-consumption are implemented. this creation of local energy communitiesthat is, the possibility that some of them are producers, some of them are consumers, and that they all participate in electricity generation and meet their electricity consumption needs by installing photovoltaics in public buildings, houses, industrial sites, by their own means.
– What barriers did we find that were corrected for the energy transition a few years ago?
Among the main obstacles are the People’s Party’s amendment to the electricity sector law in 2013 and the moratorium on renewable energy installations in 2012. Spain invaded in 2009 First place in the world in renewable energy installation There was a whole sector in the photovoltaic sector, but the People’s Party paralyzed them, many companies died and those who did not die because they went abroad.
By removing all these obstacles, the famous tax on the sun was eliminated, allowing people to self-consume, but we think this is not done right. net balancethis would be a target to consider for each of them to truly drain their power.
– What is the main purpose of the “Camino del Sol” campaign?
The aim is to be in touch with both our colleagues and our citizens, that’s why we do it province by province, to give them information about what’s going on. future and need load self consumption. That’s why we encourage and support local energy communities, but not forgetting what happened to the people who invested in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, the first to obey the government by installing very expensive renewable energy, the two cuts.
– How could the current turbulent context affect the photovoltaic power sector?
The current situation is starting to show everything we’ve been saying for years, no one is objecting to that right now. renewable energy is required, no one will object to this solar energy is essential and a solution to the problem of energy dependence. This is what we’ve been doing for more than 12 years and now with the rise of energy and the war in Ukraine installing photovoltaic energy and producing as much self-consumption as possible.