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10 Apr 08

Renewable Energy in Florida Part 2: Achieving Green Florida Energy

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renewable production-based incentives Florida Policy Germany Europe Incentives Feed-in tariffs

the current complex mess of state and federal renewable subsidies that have seen
the Florida state incentive funds for solar run out mid year
The polices engender competition for renewable production in the sub 100MW scale
where utilities are loathe to participate unless forced to by PUCs
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- In Europe, these policies are known as "feed-in tariffs," in the United States
  they are called "renewable production-based incentives," or PBIs.
- The blueprint for these policies is as follows
- Level the playing field between utility-owned fossil plants and renewables
- Prioritize renewables' access to the transmission grid
- Allow households and commercial developers to generate renewable power and sell
  it into the electricity grid under a fixed price for 20 years
- If a household could bank finance 90 percent of the cost (as is the norm in
  Germany today), install solar, sell the electricity and make a profit, who
  wouldn't consider doing it?
- Have differentiated pricing (or PBIs) for different types of green power and
  different sizes of production; allow for a reasonable profit to be made to
  stimulate investment.

03 Mar 08

World Energy Council

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China barriers finance incentives labels loans market quality regulation standards subsidies tax

This section describes the different instruments used to promote the diffusion
of solar water heaters
economic incentives
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- subsidies
- direct subsidies
- regulations
- strategies
- standards
- Regulations
- Regulations
- financing schemes
- China: the market leader
- China, which accounted for close to 80% of world annual sales of collectors for
  solar water heating or for heating buildings
- per capita installed area of collectors
- the leading countries (Israel, Cyprus, Greece and Austria
- There are several explanations for the large difference in systems costs: the
  level of sunshine (lower cost in countries with more sunshine as simpler
  technologies can be used), the size of the market (economies of series, such as
  in Turkey or in China) , quality and standards of the systems and, finally,
  labour costs. The two last factors explain a lower cost in developing
  countries
- In Europe, solar water heating systems are not, at present-day prices, generally
  competitive with conventional water heating technologies (gas or electricity) .
  The situation is better in Mediterranean countries, where the climate is more
  favourable and where less sophisticated technologies are used.
- The cost of a solar water heating system varies considerably. It can be as low
  as 300 - 400€ in China and India and as high as 5,000 - 7,000 € in the countries
  of Northern Europe.
- Tax credits / tax incentives
- equipment or installation costs
- lowered their VAT rates
- implemented tax credit schemes
- from their income tax
- Low-interest loans / third-party financing
- Keymark certification scheme developed by European manufacturers with ESTIF is
  now recognised and facilitates the movement of products between countries by
  making it easier to get financial incentives
- standards are restrictive, labels designed to achieve the same ends are, in
  theory, less restrictive.