Solar power in Spain
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Through a ministerial ruling in March 2004, the Spanish government removed economic barriers to the connection of renewable energy technologies to the electricity grid. The Royal Decree 436/2004 equalised conditions for large-scale solar thermal and photovoltaic plants and guaranteed feed-in tariffs. Spain added a record 2.6 GW of solar photovoltaic power in 2008, a figure al