In the last decade hundreds of policies promoting renewable energies have been created worldwide. One of the greatest RE success stories is the worldwide deployment of feed-in-tariffs (FiTs) for electricity from renewable sources. Only ten years ago not more than 13 countries had enacted FiTs (see REN21 Global Status Report 2007) while today at least [...]

I just read a very interesting interview with Miguel Mendonça (World Future Council Research Manager) on feed-in tariffs. He was interviewed by Xavier Lemaire who is responsible for the Sustainable Energy Regulation Network (SERN) at REEEP.
Miguel Mendoça is the author of “Feed-in Tariffs – accelerating the deployment of renewable energy”. He has co written [...]

New regulations launching a system of feed-in tariffs (FIT)  for renewable energy were announced by  India’s Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC), based in New Dehli, on September 17, 2009. This is a German model meaning an obligation for utilities to purchase, at a set price, the electricity generated by any renewable energy system. This means [...]