Spain Privatizes the Sun: Issues Heavy Penalties for Collecting Sunlight

Earth First! Newswire cleans up and considerably shortens govtslaves.info‘s partially comprehensible translation of an article at Diario Digital Nuestro País:

If you get caught collecting photons of sunlight for your own use you can drop a fine not exceeding 30 million.

Spain Privatizes the Sun: Issues Heavy Penalties for Collecting Sunlight Angrysun-300x132

Spain Privatizes the Sun: Issues Heavy Penalties for Collecting Sunlight Angrysun-300x132

So if you were thinking that the best option was just to have some solar panels that were down 80% in cost and have the opportunity to disconnect from the mains and your bill scam, you can forget about it.

With the terror of “destabilized” power consumption, sometime in 2010 someone has decided to privatize the sun …. yes you read that right: Spain, unlike the rest of Europe, levies a toll on electricity generated and injected to the line.

Committing the sacrilege of being energy independent can be very expensive, and the sun now is only for the privileged few and the power companies. The ”Spanish Photovoltaic Union (UNEF ), which brings together some 300 companies representing 85% of the industry, ensures that these changes would be more expensive than resorting to conventional supply.

http://disinfo.com/2013/07/spain-privatizes-the-sun-issues-heavy-penalties-for-collecting-sunlight/

Spain Privatizes the Sun: Issues Heavy Penalties for Collecting Sunlight

Spain Privatizes the Sun: Issues Heavy Penalties for Collecting Sunlight

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