Monday, March 30, 2009

Feed-In Tariffs

This is a great article on feed-in tariffs for Solar PV in Gainesville, FL that was brought to our attention.  Long story short,through this feed-in tariff, "The local power company is required to buy renewable energy from independent producers, no matter how small, at rates slightly higher than the average cost of production. This means anyone with a cluster of solar cells on their roof can sell the power they produce at a profit."

As evidenced in the article, this type of incentive can jump start a struggling renewable energy economy in any state of the country regardless of any other incentives that are in place. This can make any state in the US, like South Carolina on the local and state level that does not have very attractive incentives a much more popular candidate for solar PV.   

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