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No geothermals at all. Spain as a whole is very late on renewables, some early adopters are just picking up air-source heat pumps and solar panels are starting
by ricardobayes 4y ago
No geothermals at all. Spain as a whole is very late on renewables, some early adopters are just picking up air-source heat pumps and solar panels are starting to become wide-spread. It didn't help that there was a prohibitive tax on solar panels dubbed the 'sun tax' here that ended recently.
- L_226 4y agoI think I heard about some solar power investment scheme in Spain, a decade or so ago, that got a bunch of retail investors burned. Is that right? I believe it also killed the solar updraft tower [0] project that was going on in Manzanares [1]. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower#/media/File:SolarChimneyManzanares_view_from_8km_south_direction.JPG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower#/media/Fil...
- Mordisquitos 4y ago> No geothermals at all. Spain as a whole is very late on renewables I'm being extremely nitpicky here, but geothermal energy is not technically "renewable" in the precise sense of the word. That's not to say that geothermal energy cannot be an excellent and environmentally friendly energy source. For contrast, hydroelectric power is renewable, but can easily be very environmentally damaging depending on its location.