What Renewable Energy Policy Works Best? Feed-in tariffs
Feed-in tariffs are responsible for two-thirds of the world's wind power (64 percent) and almost 90 percent of the world's solar power. With simplified grid connections, long term contracts and attractive prices for development, that's policy that works.
Click to see more of our feed-in tariff (also known as CLEAN Contracts in the U.S.) coverage on Energy Self-Reliant States or see some of our other work on the subject:
Feed-in Tariffs in America: Driving the Economy with Renewable Energy Policy that Works
Pricing CLEAN Contracts for Solar PV in the U.S.
Source for pie charts: Jacobs, David. Applicability of the German FIT to the Taiwanese policy framework. (Presentation to the International Symposium on Germany’s Renewable Energy Development and Power-purchasing Policy Trends, Taipei, Taiwan, 9/28/11).
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FIT in WV
I follow your articles almost weekly with great interest and I believe you are right about policy choices but I find the challenge to enact solar incentives in WV very difficult as we have had a difficult time getting something as basic as energy efficiency measures adopted by our state legislature. I want to have legislation introduced this year that would begin the process to have a FIT in our state but am not sure how to sell it in our coal state. It sounds simple but how do we get buy in from the coal boys in order to accomplish this?
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