The Government Has Already Ruled out an Important Boost in Prices
Spain Halts Renewable Subsidies to Curb $31 Billion of Debts
Spain halted subsidies for sustainable energy projects to aid curb its budget deficit and rein in power-system borrowings backed with the suggest that reached 24 billion euros ($31 billion) following 2011.
“What is today an electricity problem could be a financial problem“, Industry Minister Jose Manuel Soria said in Madrid. Government entities passed a decree today stopping subsidies for first time wind, solar, co-generation or waste incineration plants.
The system’s debts were compiled as revenue from state- controlled prices did not cover the cost of delivering power. Costs have swollen in the past 5 years due to an increase in regulated payments to the power company, support for Spanish coal mines and subsidies for sustainable energy plants.
“It’s clear they must make major cuts,” said Francisco Salvador, a strategist at FGA/MG Valores in Madrid. “The government has already ruled out an important boost in prices, therefore the cuts will fall in lots of places as well as the spotlight is on renewables, but not just on renewables.”
Renewables companies fell around the Spanish action. Vestas Wind Systems A/S (VWS), the largest wind-turbine maker, slid just as much as 2.9 % in Copenhagen. Abengoa SA, a Spanish engineering firm specializing in solar mirrors, dropped as much as 2.2 percent in Madrid and Iberdrola SA (IBE), the biggest alternative energy producer situated in Bilbao, declined just as much as 1.5 percent.
First Step
Spain’s decision is a “first step” to rein in debts, and officials will work on the broader package of measures, Soria said. The world isn’t organising a levy on hydropower or nuclear plants, nor will it take on power-system liabilities, he explained.
The Spanish action follows Germany’s announcement yesterday which it would phase out support for solar panels by 2017 as well as the U.K.’s legal battle to cut back its subsidies to the industry.
Spain was an earlier mover in developing renewables plants, and support for wind energy helped Iberdrola end up being the world’s biggest producer of clean power, with plants inside the U.S. and Brazil. That is a sustains about 110,000 Spanish jobs, according to the Sustainable energy Producers Association.
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