Opinions

During a meeting we had last week in DG Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (FISMA) in Brussels a colleague from the Czech republic called it a bad joke: the notification of the Czech support scheme for renewables as State Aid to DG Competition of the European Commission. Roughly two weeks ago it … Continued

Friday 12th July 2013, Soraya Saénz de Santamaría and José Manuel Soria take the stage to announce the approval of Royal Decree-Law 9/2013, of 12th July, establishing urgent measures to ensure the financial stability of the electric system, in other words, the basis on which the new electric reform would be sustained. The objective: to … Continued

Last January 27th, Piet Holtrop spoke in the Committee on Petitions of the European Parliament (PETI) in order to defend a petition against the hindrances of the electrical Selfconsumption in Spain, which had been supported by 45.000 people in Change.org. This is the video of the whole appearance: Moreover, you can find each intervention in … Continued

Last Sunday 16th of november, we were positively surprised by the article published in the newspaper “EL PAÍS”. This article mentions that the Anticorruption Prosecutor has been interrogating several ministers of the PSOE Government responsible of Energy between 2007 and 2010. The question was is to clarify what happened to a debt of large utilities, … Continued

Last week I wrote an open letter to Mr. Timmermans, concerning the precarious legal situation of the Renewable Energy sector in Spain. This week we supply some background information for all stakeholders in this debacle. In the first place there are European Union citizens who decided to take serious the calls done by the Spanish … Continued

Piet Holtrop is going to take part in the First National Rubí Brilla Congress ofor change in our energy model the 10th October 2014, where the main axes will be the energy efficiency and the renewable energies in the local scope. Please find the Schedule in the following link: Congress Rubí

Dear Mr. Timmermans, Congratulations with your proposed appointment as First Vice President of the new European Commission under President Jean Claude Juncker. Your new role seems to be challenging in the sense that you will have to actively steer the Commissioners in the realm of influence of your tasks: Better Regulation, Inter-Institutional Relations, Rule of … Continued

A team from the law firm HOLTROP S.L.P., volunteer lawyers for the Platform for a New Energy Model, has travelled to Brussels to file a complaint against Spain with the European Commission for breach of European Law by the new electricity reform which drastically cuts the retribution to renewables and puts many renewable producers on … Continued

A team from the law firm HOLTROP S.L.P., volunteer lawyers for the Platform for a New Energy Model, has travelled to Brussels to file a complaint against Spain with the European Commission for breach of European Law by the new electricity reform which drastically cuts the retribution to renewables and puts many renewable producers on … Continued

Today 10th June 2014, the Royal Decree 413/2014, of 6th June, regulating the electricity production activity using renewable energies, cogeneration and waste, has been published on the Official Gazette of the Spanish Kingdom (Boletín Oficial del Estado – BOE). The deadline for contesting this Royal Decree is two working months, and taking into account that … Continued

Today, 6th June, the Royal Decree on Renewable Energies has been approved.  The summary of the reasons:  Important problems:  –From the start of 2004 and today the price of electricity has increased more than 70% and the offset amounts to 29 bn euro: the so-called tariff deficit. The argument of always, we blame renewables. He … Continued