Opinions

The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs organises on Wednesday, December 16th a small meeting about the current political events in Spain. Together with several company representatives, think tanks and other distinguished personalities we wish to discuss the opportunities and challenges that Spain is currently facing. We will start the meeting with a presentation on the … Continued

Shopping on Black Friday? We still have a whole month to go till the closing of the fiscal year, but as today is Black Friday, and everybody is already doing their Christmas shopping, we decided instead to start preparing our yearly summary  on M&A activities. For the time being, the most technically complex operation we … Continued

On November 10th at 09:30 at the premises of Caves Gramona (C / Indústria, 36 Sant Sadurní d’Anoia) a conference on energy efficiency in the wine sector will take place. The conference is organised by the Catalan Wine Cluster (INNOVI) together with the Catalan Energy Efficiency Cluster (CEEC). The aim of the conference is the … Continued

We have just gotten knowledge of the coverage ratio regarding the eighth FIT settlements of 2015. In this case, the percentage, which has been set at 87,15%, is nearly seventeen points higher than the applied in the same month of 2014.  We will continue informing you about the evolution of the coverage ratio during this … Continued

Last Saturday morning, October 10th 2015, Royal Decree 900/2015 dated as of 9th of October, which regulates the administrative, economic and technical conditions for those modalities of electricity supply based on self-consumption and production with self-consumption was published in the Boletín Oficial del Estado (Official Gazette). According to its seventh final provision, the Royal Decree (hereinafter … Continued

  At 13:30 the press conference starts following the Council of Ministers held on the 9th of October 2015. Presumably, Royal Decree on Self-Consumption has been approved during the Council meeting. Let’s see if that`s true. Minister Soria has joined the press conference; that could be a sign confirming the rumours. In this precise moment, … Continued

Greentechmedia, the website focued on deliver news, research, and analysis in the business-to-business greentech market, published, on Monday,  an article explaining the situation of the self-comsumption in Spain, and the point of view of Endesa about the battery storage. This article contains the statements of opposition of Daniel Pérez – partner of HOLTROP, S.L.P.- regarding … Continued

The review “PV Tech” has published today an article by Tom Kenning talking about the third set of proporsals for the Royal Decree on taxes for solar self-consumption, which improves on the previous proposals but maintains the core punitive measures. The article includes the statemets made by Daniel Pérez, attorney at Holtrop S.L.P, wich has … Continued

It is a tradition for Spanish Governments to publish laws when everybody is ready to go on holiday.  With the publication of two Ministerial Orders the retribution of installations that produce electric energy from renewable energy sources, cogeneration and wastes changed yet again. Both orders complement Order IET/1045/2014, of June 16th, which adopts the retributive … Continued

We have just gotten knowledge of the coverage ratio regarding the fourth FIT settlements of 2015. In this case, the percentage, which has been set at 76,30%, is nearly twenty points higher than the applied in the same month of 2014.  We will continue informing you about the evolution of the coverage ratio during this … Continued

The Spanish National Authority for Markets and Competition (CNMC) has published the coverage ratio regarding the FIT settlements of March 2015, which has been set at 68,68%. In the following table we can see how the percentages published for 2015 are considerably superior to those applied in the same period of 2014. This means that … Continued

“Our actions maybe impeded but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accomodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting.” A few words from Marcus Aurelius to continue my post of last week. For a start I promised to explain the … Continued