Sun, 06 Sep 2026 22:03:18 +0100 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.0.3 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11237&Focus=185718#Comment_185718 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11237&Focus=185718#Comment_185718 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 19:10:07 +0100 jamesingram http://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/forum114/comments.php?DiscussionID=11066&page=1#Item_0
Spain’s sunshine toll: Row over proposed solar tax
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24272061

"We will be the only country in the world charging for the use of the sun,"]]> https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11237&Focus=185720#Comment_185720 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11237&Focus=185720#Comment_185720 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 20:10:41 +0100 SteamyTea Distributed generation does have a costs to the DNO. Not sure if the DNO's can pass this cost on to the generation companies or not (either here or in Spain).
Somewhere a price has to be paid, just a matter of how much and by who really.]]> https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11237&Focus=185727#Comment_185727 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11237&Focus=185727#Comment_185727 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 20:51:29 +0100 bot de paille https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11237&Focus=185746#Comment_185746 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11237&Focus=185746#Comment_185746 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 23:05:04 +0100 rhamdu
http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/green-building-news/wisconsin-electric-cooperative-jolts-passivhaus-owner]]> https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11237&Focus=185801#Comment_185801 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11237&Focus=185801#Comment_185801 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 13:29:55 +0100 djh 'he will no longer receive the retail rate for power generated by his 4.52 kW PVPhotovoltaics. Generation of electricity directly from sunlight. A photovoltaic (PV) cell has no moving parts; electrons are energized by sunlight and result in current flow. system. Instead, the cooperative is prepared to pay the "avoided cost" of the electricity, which is based on the cost to the utility of buying or generating the power.

The policy change, which was announced in May, will have the effect of lowering payments to Konkol and other cooperative customers with PV systems from 10 or 11 cents per kWh to between 2.75 and 3.75 cents per kWh'

Seems reasonable to me, and actually pretty similar to the UK rate, whether by coincidence or not.

'"It isn't fair," [the owner] said. "I would argue it's the other way around, that we're subsidizing the cooperative."'

I don't understand that assertion and the journalist doesn't explain what justifies it.]]> https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11237&Focus=185820#Comment_185820 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11237&Focus=185820#Comment_185820 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 15:40:25 +0100 rhamdu
Arguably this is a 'green' tariff structure since it gives consumers an incentive to use energy sparingly. Presumably they didn't expect any consumer to generate as much electricity as they use.

I can't see how this customer is 'subsidising' the cooperative except possibly by helping them to meet some kind of 'renewables obligation'.]]>