In contrast to the considerable cross-party consensus in Spain for promoting utility-scale renewable power, the country has experienced a high degree of political conflict over small-scale electricity generation primarily for consumption by the producer himself. This chapter details the battle over self-consumption from its origins in the early 2010s until its resolution at the end of the decade. It begins with the initial attempts to develop the needed regulations and then describes the obstacles erected by the Rajoy government after it took office in 2011. A further section covers the efforts of other parties to remove those obstacles and the success of the Rajoy government at resisting those efforts until it was cast out of office. The last sections detail the steps taken by the subsequent Sanchez government to remove the barriers and some other issues that needed to be resolved before the full potential of self-consumption could be realized.