After Spain’s government had introduced extremely generous subsidies for solar energy in 2007, the sector was booming – Spain reached its goals for 2010 by the end of the same year. Solar power developers were not the only one’s benefitting: in 2008, several civil servants were found to have issued licenses for companies in which they or immediate relatives had a direct stake. Another issue arose when the government announced deadline for solar state-support, and many solar power developers rushed to meet it. Several developers reportedly declared incomplete projects as finished or set up fake panels, exposing the absence of a rigorous oversight mechanism on the state’s side.