EREF, the European Renewable Energies Federations, together with the Spanish Renewable Energy Association, APPA, as the umbrella of the renewable energy associations in Spain and representing the vast majority of the national renewable sector, would hereby like to call upon you and the European Commission and request your support in the matter of the alarming development regarding the steps currently being taken by the Spanish government to deal with its electricity tariff deficit putting the domestic renewable energy under a serious threat to become the victim to the Spanish economic situation. In fact, the government not only plans retroactive changes in the framework of renewable energy support in Spain and thereby threatens to destroy the business plans of several thousand existing projects, but would also create new and strong windfall profits for the big electricity utilities, creating more distortions in the market and moving farther away from a level playing field in which all technologies could complete.