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Indian Government to Offer 30% Solar Subsidies, Could Increase to 50%
The Indian government plans to offer 30% solar subsidies to domestic and commercial users but in order to make the program a success, and reach the goal of 20,000 MW solar energy by 2022, it needs to take several essential policy initiatives.
Gov. Schwarzenegger Wants to Buy Your Surplus Solar Power
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Sunday signed the nation’s first statewide solar feed-in tariff, a provision that requires utilities to purchase solar energy put back on to the grid at above-market prices.
State-Level Renewable Energy Subsidies Suffering Because of Popularity
Connecticut is just one state where a rebate program for home and business owners who purchase solar systems was so popular, the funds backing it have dried up. [Adapted from a post previously published at Red, Green, and Blue] Until now, Connecticut’s solar rebate program was one of the better run and most generous in [...]
Swiss Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariff Settles In
The Swiss, famed for their democratic traditions, chocolate, and knives with corkscrews, have adopted an aggressive feed-in tariff to promote the rapid development of renewable energy. The Swiss federal government has launched an aggressive system of feed-in tariffs that pays any renewable energy generator for every kWh of electricity generated. The Swiss system, which is [...]
U.S. Rep. Inslee Will Introduce Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariff Legislation
U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wa.) plans to introduce a bill into the House this month to establish a federal feed-in tariff for renewable energy similar to European incentive programs, Inslee told Clean Technology Investor (subscription req’d). Under the bill, utilities would be required to pay a specific price for renewable energy to anyone supplying electricity [...]
Germans Debate Renewable Energy Supports
Conservatives call into question highly successful feed-in tariff [Originally posted at Red, Green, and Blue on 5.19.08] There is a reason that Germany has half of the world’s installed solar generating capacity, and it is not the Northern European country’s boundless sunshine. Renewable energy capacity has achieved such tremendous growth because of the German government’s [...]
British Parliament to Vote on Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariff Today
Ahead of a crucial House of Commons vote on Wednesday, which aims to add a renewable energy feed-in tariff (FIT) to the energy bill currently working its way through parliament, a broad-based coalition says that parliament has no time to waste and must act to adopt more aggressive clean energy policies. Farmers unions, environmental groups, [...]
Germany to Phase Out Coal Industry; U.S. to Not.
The German government is making headway on a proposal that would seek to totally phase out the country’s entire coal mining industrial sector by 2018. The proposal, which is subject to approval by both houses of the German Parliament, will ensure structured compensation payments for the country’s 34,000 coal workers. The German Social Democratic Party [...]
Michigan Bill Proposes First U.S. Renewable Energy Feed-in Law
State Representative Kathleen Law (D) of Michigan’s 23rd district has introduced House Bill 5218 (the Michigan Renewable Energy Sources Act), which is the first comprehensive renewable energy “feed-in tariff” (FIT) introduced in any American legislature. By fixing a guaranteed price for small-scale electricity generation, the proposed legislation would help build the distributive infrastructure needed for [...]
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