All Entries in the "Feed-In Tariff" Category
Clever Accounting Lets Utilities Cash In When You Go Solar
August 13, 2011 Reprinted with Permission Copyright, all rights reserved I recently got a copy of a utility bill for a Minnesota business that has a 40-kilowatt (kW) solar PV array. I wanted to learn how quickly he’d pay off his array with the electricity savings. I was shocked. Payback time was 30 years. Even [...]
California’s Solar Program Costs More Than German Feed-in Tariffs
Newly installed solar photovoltaic (solar PV) projects in Californian were paid an average of approximately $0.34/kWh last year, according to a privately-commissioned study. Germans paid substantially less, taking into consideration the amount of solar energy their country receives.
Ontario Feed-In Tariff Program: $8 billion of Deals So Far
(This article originally posted April, 2010, and is even more pertinent today; reprinted with permission.) Derek Wong is a Toronto based sustainability consultant. He holds an Engineering degree from University of Melbourne and is a CSA America certified greenhouse gas professional. See contact info and more posts like this at Carbon49.com. Ontario, the largest province [...]
Vermont Sees No Conflict between Feed-in Tariffs and Federal Law
October 8, 2010 By Paul Gipe In a big win for Vermont’s nascent feed-in tariff program, the state’s Public Service Board (PSB) ruled today that they see no conflict between the state’s program and the federal government. A challenge by Vermont’s Department of Public Service (DPS) had jeopardized several megawatts of solar PV projects that [...]
Ontario’s FIT Program a Success After One Year
By Tyler Hamilton Energy and Technology Columnist Ontario’s feed-in-tariff program is one year old on Oct. 1 and most would call it a success, judged strictly by the number of green-power projects it has attracted. But the word “success” can be good or bad depending on where you stand. For many, the success of this [...]
2010: The Year of Feed-In Tariff Legislation
A number of state legislatures attempted passage of Feed-In Tariff legislation last year. A few succeeded, but not anywhere near as many as should have. There were a number of lessons to be learned from the efforts. What we at Northern States Solar Services learned from all the attempts, whether they were successes and failures, [...]
Impact of Ontario Feed in Tariff program on the Wind Power Market
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GlobalData’s new report – “Impact of Ontario Feed in Tariff program on the Wind Power Market”, explores a key segment within the…
Solar Power in Australia: Solar Thermal Energy in Australia, Solar Thermal Energy, Greenhouse Gas, Power Station, Solar Hot Water in Australia, Photovoltaic Module, Feed-in Tariffs in Australia
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Australia has an estimated 115 MW of installed PV power (July 2009), contributing an estimated 0.1 to 0.2%…
Renewable financial support systems and cost-effectiveness [An article from: Journal of Cleaner Production]
This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Cleaner Production, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format …
Automatic Meter Reading: Automatic meter reading, Distributed generation, Electricity meter, Feed-in Tariff, Gas meter, Net metering, Nonintrusive load … Power line communication, Public utility
Automatic meter reading, or AMR, is the technology of automatically collecting consumption, diagnostic, and status data from water meter or energy m…
Feed-in Tariffs: Accelerating the Deployment of Renewable Energy
A feed-in tariff is where the price per unit that a utility or supplier has to pay for renewable electricity is kept at a premium, which allows electr…
Powering the Green Economy: The Feed-in Tariff Handbook
Feed-in tariffs—laws that provide a premium rate (tariff) over a fixed period of time for each unit of electricity fed into the grid—are one of t…
An integrated assessment of the feed-in tariff system in Spain [An article from: Energy Policy]
This digital document is a journal article from Energy Policy, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available…
Carbon finance: Environmental Finance, Greenhouse Gas, Investment, Financial Instrument, Emissions Trading, Carbon Credit, Reforestation, Feed-in Tariff, Personal Carbon Trading.
Carbon finance is a new branch of Environmental finance. Carbon finance explores the financial implications of living in a carbon-constrained world, a…
Renewable-Energy Law: Feed-In Tariff, Financial Incentives for Photovoltaics, New York Energy Law, Feed-In Tariffs in Australia
Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a mi…
Feed-in tariffs in Australia
Limited solar photovoltaic feed-in tariffs have been enacted by several State Governments in Australia and several have proposed feed-in tariffs schem…
Feed-In Tariff Propels Solar Thermal Power in Spain
Feed-In Tariff Propels Solar Thermal Power in Spain
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CSP (Concentrating Solar Power) or Solar Thermal plants use mirrors t…
Compensating customer-generators: a taxonomy describing methods of compensating customer-generators for electricity supplied to the grid [An article from: Energy Policy]
This digital document is a journal article from Energy Policy, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available…
Feed-in Tariff Designs
Among the instruments to support electricity generation from renewable energy sources (RES-E), feed-in tariff (FIT) systems are the most frequently us…
