Go Solar Go Dot Com : Tag : Oregon

by dan — Monday, May 14th, 2007

Everybody points to Germany as an example of how far solar energy can go given the proper incentives from goverment. Net-metering is like putting the key in the ignition, but feed-in tariffs really seem to put the petal to the metal. Of course, in Germany the rates for, er, fed-in electricity from solar energy systems are large multiples of retail costs for electricity. Eugene, OR has established feed-in tariffs, or something akin to it, purchasing electricity from customer with solar generation systems on long term contract. Details are few in this story, but the implication - that feed-in tariffs are perhaps not that foreign after all - is encouraging.

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