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Designing Feed-in tariffs for Africa
07 Oct 2010
by James Smith (REEEP Community Facilitator) - Category: Events, REEEP
Renewable energy technologies in Africa have been until recently diffused mainly via donor-driven projects to meet specific needs notably for off-grid rural electrification. Some of these technologies like wind generation have matured and are now widely implemented in OECD countries with the support of market mechanisms like feed-in tariff. Feed-in tariff laws have proved to [...]
REN21’s annual report 2010 shows: Number of Countries with Renewables Policy Targets and/or Promotion Policy almost doubled since 2005 – from 55 to more than 100 by early 2010
22 Aug 2010
by REN21 - Category: Contributed News
On 15 July 2010, the ’Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century’ (REN21), which aims at facilitating policy development for the rapid expansion of renewable energies in developing and industrialised economies, released the ‘Renewables 2010 Global Status Report’, the 5th edition of its annual flagship publication. What is the purpose of the REN21 Renewables [...]
New Interactive Map illustrates rapid diffusion of renewable policies worldwide
02 Mar 2010
by Florian Bauer - Category: News
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 [...]
An interview with Miguel Mendonça from the World Future Council on feed-in tariffs
27 Oct 2009
by Florian Bauer - Category: REEEP
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 [...]
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