It is an estimate of the Spanish Photovoltaic Union (UNEF), that has advanced on forecasts 2019. The sector installed last year 262 megawatts of photovoltaic solar power. 236 of them were self-consumption, solar installations that generate electricity than ever bequeaths network because electricity consumed super-owner. Self-consumption on farms, industrial buildings, office buildings, houses, hotels, malls, etc. UNEF estimated that this year 2019 will end up with between 300 and 400 megawatts of new self-consumption. It is said that the sector is installing approximately one mega each day.
The end of the Sun tax has effectively triggered the market for solar self-consumption in Spain. The sector was preparing for this – distributors, engineering, installers- but the potential clients, threatened by the tax in question, did not quite take the step.
The reasons for this explosion are diverse: the repeal of the tax; the lowering of costs of the facility (it is estimated that PV technology has on costs reduced 95% in the last ten years); the quality of professionals and the resource, the sun, abundant in our country.