The draft was sent by the Minister of Industry to Spain’s National Energy Commission (CNE). Plant owners have two months to prove this, and the legislation will cover the plants under RD 661/2007 and 1578/2008.
Those plant owners that cannot meet such request will not receive the expected feed-in tariff, and the Minister of Industry will subsequently delete the installation from the special regime within the electricity production facilities register.
Some analysts believe that the new draft aims to scare plant owners, as it includes a section in which they are encouraged to be transparent and admit their fault (i.e. requesting the connection point before the plant was built), which would mean that they would fall under the 1578/2008 real decree rather than the 661/2007 one, with a substantial drop in tariff.
The government has also announced that it will check and cross the import customs information with the supplies imports declared by installers for the tax authorities.
This new draft has been created after the rumours that many facilities intented to receive the feed-in tariffs included in the 661/2007 royal decree, despite not having the equipment needed to operate the plant. It was something obvious, since those plants were not injecting electricity into the grid on September 30, one day after the deadline. For this reason, the CNE will investigate 4189 plants, or 13.3% of the installed capacity in the coming months.
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