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Overcomes barriers: guarantees grid
access; premium price guarantees support for the technology; 20-year tariff
periods allow full investor confidence. |
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Supports installations of different
sizes and technologies: In addition to large RE projects for wind, solar etc,
householders can now get a guaranteed payback on a solar roof in just a few
years, rather than 20-30 years. The 100,000 solar roof programme helped meet
costs with subsidies. |
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Promotes innovation: Annual reduction of tariffs for new
installations drives technological efficiency. |
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Drives economies of scale: investment
and demand are rising, and manufacturing expansion is taking place globally
in response, lowering costs further. |
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Promotes stability: Change of
government does not affect system, as it does not cost taxpayers anything
through taxes, and so cannot be cut from national budget. |
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Promotes public support: Through public
participation in the scheme, no direct taxpayer costs, support for the
nuclear phase-out, and awareness levels being very high in general. |
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All possible when implemented properly! |
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ÒRenewable Tariffs have proven the
most successful mechanism for stimulating investment in renewable electricity
generation worldwide. Renewable Tariffs have resulted in more installed
generating capacity and more robust competition among manufacturers and have
stimulated more renewable technology development than any other policy
mechanism.Ó |
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- Paul Gipe, Renewable Energy
Policy Mechanisms. |
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ÒTo date, feed-in or pricing
systems have been responsible for most of the additions in renewable energy
capacity and generation, while also driving down costs through technology
advancement and economies of scale, and developing domestic industries and
jobs. Pricing systems, where well-implemented, have provided increased
predictability and consistency in markets, which in turn has encouraged banks
and other financial institutions to provide the capital required for
investment, and has attracted private investment for R&D.Ó |
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- Janet L. Sawin, National
Policy Instruments: Policy Lessons for the Advancement & Diffusion of
Renewable Energy Technologies Around the World. |
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ÒÉuntil now so called renewable
energy feed-in tariffs (REFITs) have shown the best effectiveness concerning
the creation of new RES installations. |
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- Mischa Bechberger and Danyel
Reiche, Good Environmental Governance for Renewable Energies – The
Example of Germany – Lessons for China? |
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ÒÉonly a model based on guaranteed
feed-in tariffs enables a quick and broad implementation of renewable energy,
better supports its technological development, as well as more efficiently
promotes cost reduction.Ó |
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- Hermann Scheer, On the future
of national support for renewable energy in Europe. |
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Ongoing environmental damage from CO2
already released |
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Ongoing, unpredictable price rises for
conventional energy |
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Threats to livelihoods and national
productivity from energy shortfalls through high prices and poor grid
investment |
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Technological advances will make RE
cost-competitive with conventional fuels within a decade. |
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Huge global markets for exports |
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Increasing public support for RE as
climate change accelerates |
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Global cooperation over clean energies |
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New emissions reduction protocol |
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Switch to renewables - inevitable |
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