by Paul Gipe
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India’s 1.1 billion move to feed-in tariffs 0
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago The world's largest single political jurisdiction to date, India, has made a strategic move to use a comprehensive system of feed-in tariffs to develop its renewable energy potential. Read More -
Ontario launches comprehensive system of feed-in tariffs 1
Posted 2 months ago Ontario, on Thursday, launched the province's long-awaited program of feed-in tariffs in response to its ground-breaking Green Energy Act. Read More -
Conservative French Government again proposes higher solar PV tariffs 1
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago For the second time within twelve months the French Government of conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy has proposed raising the feed-in tariff for solar PV in the coming year. Read More -
China launches differentiated wind energy tariffs 0
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago China has instituted a new system of differentiated wind energy tariffs based on four wind energy zones. Read More -
The mouse that roared
Vermont feed-in tariffs become law 2
Posted 6 months ago Vermont's feed-in tariff legislation became law at the end of business on May 27, 2009.H. 446 is the first legislation calling for a full system of advanced renewable tariffs in the US to pass the legislature and become law. The bill includes changes to Vermont's Sustainably Priced Energy Enterprise Development Program (SPEED) that would implement a pilot feed-in tariff policy.
Vermont's action follows closely on that of the Ontario provincial legislature's groundbreaking Green Energy Act and with several states considering similar legislation, the Green Mountain state could be the tipping point for a rapid succession of feed-in tariff policies… Read More
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You put your feed-in there
An ideological breakthrough on feed-in tariffs in Britain 0
Posted 1 year ago In a startling reversal, Britain's Labour government has put on the table a feed-in tariff proposal for "microgeneration." The proposed feed-in tariffs will pay homeowners, farmers, and community groups for the electricity they generate with renewable energy.The move represents an ideological breakthrough. Long an ardent supporter of Renewable Obligation Certificate trading systems and plain old-fashioned subsidies as the sole means of developing renewable energy, Britain's Labour government has abruptly changed course.
Britain, along with its English-speaking allies in the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, has been a staunch proponent of the "Washington Consensus" of neoliberal economic… Read More
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The cost of lost opportunities
The bailout, the war, and renewable energy 2
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago While the renewable energy industry in the U.S. celebrates a rare victory -- winning an eight-year extension of its federal tax subsidies -- no one should forget what we've lost.Forget for a moment the recurring costs of an inflated defense budget. Chalmers Johnson has tallied those. Let's look at the two biggest items, the ones that stand out so strikingly: the war in Iraq and the recent financial bailout.
Much has been written about the lost opportunities from the enormous expense of the Iraq war. But few yet have tallied what we're missing when combining… Read More
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