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Part two of Feed In Tariffs – Do they work at Home?

May 21, 2008 By Dale Vince

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This is a follow-on post from my ‘What’s Wrong With Feed-in Tariffs’ posting earlier.

It’s not un-common to hear people say ‘We need Feed in Tariffs in the UK, like they have in Germany – they’ve got umpteen Gigawatts of renewables from it’. And fair enough they do. It’s important not to confuse large scale FITs with micro though.

The problem for onshore wind (large scale) in the UK is planning not financial and therefore FITs just can’t help. We need German planning laws to emulate German success, in large scale wind.

But what about micro generation; Are feed in tariffs the answer to better deliver this? (more…)



 

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What’s wrong with Feed in Tariffs?

April 17, 2008 By Dale Vince

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I discussed Feed in Tariffs with David Cameron at our Reading turbine last week. The Tories have a policy proposal to introduce Feed in Tariffs – to do something about the lack of progress we’re making with Renewable Energy in the UK. But I don’t think this will help at all. (more…)



 

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