NEWS

We are dying. You can tell that. "These words of a spokesman for the Spanish Photovoltaic Union (UNEF) describe the situation in which it is the sector that will end 2012 with about 5,000 jobs, half from last year, and 12 times less than which had in 2008, the peak and was installed in most of the photovoltaic power that placed the country as a third world power. almost 600 companies engaged in the business has gone just over 300, he says. And also suffering total paralysis the wind sector.

The moratorium on new facilities eligible for premium imposed in January by the Government and the 6% tax on electricity production has only to deepen the crisis that erupted with regulatory changes and uncertainties that reduced premiums production retroactively.