Spain Solar Plant Owners Face Probe Over Subsidies
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Spain may force any solar plant owners who cheated on paperwork to gain higher subsidies to repay income earned through deception, a ministry official said.
Officials will ask the operators of photovoltaic plants with about 800 megawatts of capacity, or a quarter of the total, to prove their panels were connected to Spain’s power grid before the September 2008 deadline for earning the highest premium, the industry ministry official said today at a Madrid news briefing. The plan will be set out in a decree due to be approved tomorrow by the Spanish government, he said.