Current political backdrop Spain's right-wing majority People's Party government is intent on austerity, and is ideologically and personally cosy with gas and nuclear lobbies. It has maintained a moratorium on new wind capacity since 2012 and passed a series of retroactive regulations damaging profits for existing capacity High point of 2013 Spanish wind emerges as the biggest single generator for the year, an annual first for wind power in any country Low point New energy law passed in June, retroactively stripping wind of its 20-year feed-in tariff Key influencer Alberto Nadal, feared by the sector even before becoming Spain's secretary of state for energy. Understood to be the real architect of a series of regulations strangling renewables Deep austerity has slowed Spain's previously soaring wind market to a crawl. New capacity in 2014 is expected to be even lower than the 174MW that the country installed in 2013, according to national wind association AEE. Spain's performance compares dismally with its annual new capacity average of 1.47GW between 1998 and 2012, and especially with the 3.5GW peak in 2007.
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