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May 24, 2007

Progress Report for Ontario's New Feed-in Tariff

by Stephen Lacey, Podcast Editor
Peterborough, New Hampshire [RenewableEnergyAccess.com]

Ontario's Standard Offer Program created the first feed-in tariff for North America in over 20 years. Last year, Ontario government officials determined that a feed-in tariff similar to Germany's would be the best way to deploy large amounts of renewable energy quickly.

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While a number of applications for large projects have been submitted, the program has seen little development of small-scale residential and commercial solar and biogas projects. Some people say that the tariffs were set too low for those industries, which is discouraging community-based development. We’ll have a report on how effective Ontario’s feed-in tariff has been thus far.

Also in the podcast: Inside Renewable Energy’s European Contributor Rian Van Staden takes a look at the upcoming G8 Summit, UK’s early butterflies, and some notable renewable energy conferences.

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May 26, 2007
This is the type of program everyone needs. They have similar programs in Germany and pay you 8 times the rate you pay for electricity. Thta is why Germany buy half of all the PV panels in the world and is the fastest growing wind user in the worldd too.
In the US it's hard to just get equal net-metering and fair TOD paybacks. Most companies take your REC Renewable Energy Credits and they did nothing. This feed-in tariff is a big step ahead.
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June 11, 2007

Hi Stephen,

This incentive is an excellent  form of encouragement. I have been compiling a global list of "feed-in" tariffs. This is a time consuming task due to the lack of an organisational body that has a direct interest in recognising the benefits of such a matrix being available. The benefits for the industry are numerous as it allows the originators a forum to promote their tariff so as to encourage investment and allows investors to easily identify potential development regions that may have similiar qualities under site selection processes. Any ideas ?


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