FITs

Information About Feed-in Tariffs (FITs) In General

      -What is a tariff, a feed-in tariff, an advanced renewable tariff and a subsidy? Definitions

      -What are the cost justifications for FITs?

      -A great introduction to Ontario's Feed-In Tariffs program -OPA Presention, courtesy of Paul Gipe

      -A brief comparison of Ontario's proposed FITs with Germany and California

      -Farm power through FIT's - A presentation by Paul Gipe, March 26, 2010

      -FITs in Europe; Best Practices - a research project done for the BMU, Updated in Oct 2008

      -Local content rules: What does Europe do? -Nothing, because it would violate competition rules within the European Union

      -Subsidies or incentives: Do Germany, France and Spain include any for for manufacturers?


Ontario's new Feed-in Tariff (FIT) program, a part of the new Green Energy Act (Links to the final documents)

      -FIT rules, contracts and pricing

      -FIT documents resource page **

      -Known FIT/MicroFIT issues and concerns

      -Renewable Energy Approvals (REA), (full document), the full regulations, just the overview, cultural heritage implications

      -Local content rules (a rather hot topic)
          -Local content requirements (FIT Rules document, see section 6.4, pages 16 and 17 of the PDF document)
          -Local content methodology (Schedule "D" in the FIT contract, page 74 of the PDF document)

      -Related: Community Energy Partnership Program

   -MicroFIT program review (my presentation for the Green Energy Act Alliance, Oct 26, 2009)

    -FIT and MicroFIT problems being tracked

Historical FIT Program Development Documents

       -Green Energy Act reccomendations for improvement from the Green Energy Act Alliance -April 16th

       -Green Energy Act reccomendations for improvement from CANSIA -April 6th

       -Misconceptions about home energy audits as proposed in the Green Energy Act

       -CANSIA's Submission #1 to OPA

       -CANSIA's Submission #2 to OPA

       -Green Energy Act Press Release


Feed-in Tariff Programs In Other Countries

-Germany

-Spain -Sorry, no information available at this time

-France

-Portugal -Sorry, no information available at this time

-South Korea -Sorry, no information available at this time

-United States
- The U.S. greatly accelerates its plans for RE deployment - July 2

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