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Spanish Falling

Spain's surprisingly advanced renewable energy sector is facing obstacles like government cutbacks, ever-changing regulations and a retracting European economy.

Spain’s surprisingly advanced renewable energy sector is facing obstacles like government cutbacks, ever-changing regulations and a retracting European economy. “With the Spanish government trying to save money wherever it can in order to assuage financial markets, especially as it has been bundled with Greece on lists of Europe’s financial basket cases, the €6.2 billion of annual renewables subsidies has become very difficult to sustain.”


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