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14 Jan 2008 12:00 AM by LAM1963 Star rating in Lincolnshire, Fortun.... 152 posts Send private message

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I am about to complete on a property next week and have been informed about new laws with regard to solar panels being fitted Reuters clip included below. What i would like to know is would my property be included in this new law . I signed my reservation on the 29th July 2005

Is there any other new laws that have come into force that i need to take into consideration

The Property is in Murcia

Reuters Report below

MADRID - Solar panels are now compulsory on all new and renovated buildings in Spain as part of the country’s efforts to bring its building rules up to date and curb growing demand for energy, ministers said on Monday.

Until now Spain’s building standards have dated from the 1970s and have done little in seeking to improve energy efficiency.

“We have to make up the time we have lost,” Environment Minister Cristina Narbona said, inaugurating a seminar on the new technical building code.

The code will come into force fully next March but the energy saving element was implemented on Sept. 29.

This means new homes have to be equipped with solar panels to provide between 30 and 70 percent of their hot water, depending on where the building is located and on its expected water usage.

New non-residential buildings, such as shopping centers and hospitals, now have to have photovoltaic panels to generate a proportion of their electricity.

Solar power has not yet taken off in Spain, largely because subsidies have been directed at wind energy, and it provided a negligible amount of the country’s electricity in 2005.

Other measures in the new building code enforce the use of better insulation, improve the maintenance of heating and cooling systems and increase the use of natural light.

“The new standards will bring energy savings of 30 to 40 percent for each building and a reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from energy consumption of 40 to 55 percent,” the Environment and Housing Ministries said in a joint statement.

The Housing Ministry is trying to rein in the amount of new building, although it is Spain’s local and regional governments that are responsible for planning permission.

“In the last decade we have built the equivalent of a quarter of all the urban area that existed until then,” Housing Minister Maria Antonio Trujillo told the seminar.

The building standards code should limit the damage of continued new construction and is the most significant legal change for the sector in the last 30 years, she said.

The construction lobby Asprima estimates that the new requirements will increase building costs by between 8 and 12 percent.

Trujillo said that was “absolutely untrue” and that the extra cost was 1 percent, which would be offset by the energy savings achieved. 



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14 Jan 2008 6:51 PM by mariadecastro Star rating in Algeciras (Cadiz). 9419 posts Send private message

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Depending on when the Work Project and the Worl License were granted.

It is inforce since March 2007.

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15 Jan 2008 2:52 PM by mariadecastro Star rating in Algeciras (Cadiz). 9419 posts Send private message

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The Technical Building Code ( a National Royal Decree), where those solar panel requirements were set, came into force on the 29th of March of 2006.  Regarding Murcia and Solar panels, the 60 or 70 percent of hot water of buildings need to come from solar sources. The Law is enforceable to all buildings without work license by the date referred above. SO if your developer had his work license approved before then, it is not obliged under this Royal Decree.



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15 Jan 2008 5:01 PM by LAM1963 Star rating in Lincolnshire, Fortun.... 152 posts Send private message

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Thanks i appreciate your time looking into this

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16 Jan 2008 8:53 AM by mariadecastro Star rating in Algeciras (Cadiz). 9419 posts Send private message

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