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Miguel Mendonca
World Future Council
Miguel Mendonça is Research Manager for the World Future Council. His background is in forestry, horticulture, geography, history, journalism, social science and environmental ethics. He works in both research and advocacy, focussing on renewable energy policy. He has worked on four continents, campaigning, coalition-building and speaking, and is a member of the steering committee of the Alliance for Renewable Energy, promoting feed-in tariffs in North America. He writes articles, papers, comment pieces and book reviews on renewable energy and other sustainability issues, is author of “Feed-in Tariffs: accelerating the deployment of renewable energy” and is co-writing a new book on decarbonising the global economy, entitled “A Renewable World – Policies, Practices, Technologies.”
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Articles by Miguel Mendonca: 6
We Actually Can?!
As a researcher and writer, one naturally gets to read a few books. However, I was absolutely astonished to find that it was one of my own, A Renewable World, that actually gave me, for the first time as a professional...
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Feed-in Tariffs Go Global: Policy in Practice
Globally, feed-in tariffs (FITs), also known as 'advanced renewable tariffs' (ARTs) or 'renewable energy payments' (REPs) in North America, have gone from strength to strength. Such schemes pay renewable energy producers a set rate (tariff) for each unit of electricity fed...
Anarchy in the EU
The world's home of renewable energy has arguably been Europe for the last couple of decades. This is due largely to the use of feed-in tariffs as very successful market launch and development programs. Although different governments use them for different...
Feed-in tariffs: Renewables: the ongoing battle
Prodigious renewable resources could be more effectively exploited if policies supporting renewable energy feed-in tariffs were introduced. However, vested interests and lack of political courage stand as major barriers, argues Miguel Mendonca....
Feed-In Tariffs & Long Beach: The English Perspective
I was aware that the Solar Power 2007 conference held in Long Beach, California, last month would be big. Up to ten thousand delegates. But what did this mean in the U.S. context? Was last year double the size, or half...
Energy, Ethics and Feed-in Tariffs
After more than a year of researching and writing on feed-in tariffs (FITs), I'm still amazed at how many people haven't heard of them -- especially people who by right should be shouting the subject from the rooftops. I refer in...
