Rodriguez defends subsidies for large solar instal

2010
06.13

Rodriguez defends subsidies for large solar installations.

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, February 5 .- The Minister of Employment, Industry and Commerce, Government of Canarias, Jorge Rodriguez, today dnded the government policy to allocate subsidies for solar thermal energy for large scale, because they offer more social returns that aid houses.

Until 2006, the program Procasol Canary Islands Government was limited to small installations of solar panels, especially in houses, but, ffxiv gil, the counselor said, from the social point of view is more profitable for use by large buildings, as happens now.

Prior owners are subsidized flats to heat water for their pools, now the beneficiaries are businesses, hotels, swimming pools and blocks of buildings, he said.

The Socialist MP Maria Belen Morales counselor alteration to single, sto energy credits, family homes in which solar panels are installed are not only shawls, but is most often from homes in rural environments.

Morales denounced that public support for solar heating are "a mass of nonsense and reminded that the call of 2009 was published in the BOC on December 31 and have not been paid subsidies of 2008.

According to the representative of the, aika gold, PSOE, does not encourage this type of installation, which puts the Canaries "the tail" of Spain in solar thermal energy.

The director denied that claim and assure that the islands have more square meters per capita in thermal solar energy than any other Spanish community.

The estimation of the counseling in the absence of official data from the Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving, is that the Canary Islands had installed 161,000 meters squared of solar panels, which is in line with the objectives of the Canary Islands Energy Plan (Pecan).

He insisted that it is more efficient to finance major projects that make a better use of solar energy, but indicated that in 2010, down from 30 square meters minimum for access to the subsidy at 20 meters.

In two years, the Canary Islands Government has allocated 1.6 million euros in subsidies, said the adviser, who acknowledged the delay in the publication of aid for 2009, which had previously ascribed to sign an agreement with the Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving.

I trust that the aid for 2010 was convened in the first half of this year.

PP deputy Manuel Fernandez consider it better than public resources are channeled to large installations, because they offer greater performance and achievement for the small person.

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