[Sdpg] Spain Mandates Solar on New Homes
Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson
lakinroe at silcom.com
Fri Nov 12 06:21:38 PST 2004
Spain Mandates Solar on New Homes
> SOL TRAIN
> Spain makes solar panels on new homes mandatory
>
> Hoping to catch up to solar powerhouse Germany, sunny Spain has
> announced that as of next year, solar panels will become mandatory on
> new and renovated buildings. The government is shooting for a tenfold
> increase in the total square footage of solar panels by 2010. Domestic
> solar usage is low in Spain, though the country is a leading
> manufacturer of solar panels. With oil above $50 a barrel, the
> government claims that solar power could save each household more than
> $100 a year just on water heating costs. The initiative could also
> make a notable dent in the nation's greenhouse-gas emissions. Industry
> Minister Jose Montilla promised subsidies to ease the transition, but
> gave no details. Spain's socialist government is headed by Prime
> Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, upon whom a Grist editor who
> shall remain nameless has a considerable crush. This solar business is
> only going to fan the flames.
>
> straight to the source: The Times, David Sharrock, 09 Nov 2004
> <http://grist.org/cgi-bin/forward.pl?forward_id=3571>
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