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Published online 19 December 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1326

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Spanish solar firms accused of fraud

Hundreds of companies falsely registered to receive higher subsidies.

Many of the solar parks that stretch across vast tracts of the Spanish countryside are guilty of fraud, Spain's National Energy Commission (CNE) has found.

In the past two years, Spain's solar industry has grown by a spectacular 900%.

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