A swedish kind of death:
I recently came across O2, a swedish wind-coop. They offer a membership share for 6200 SEK (~650 euro) which entitles you to use 1000 kWh/year for the production cost of 0,13 SEK/kWh (~0,015 euro/kWh) which translates to 10% of retail price. If you use less the rest can be sold. If you leave you can sell back your share. You cut out the middle man in the investment-chain and invest in what you are going to consume. That way you decrease uncertainty for both seller and consumer/investor. Is this basically what you are proposing but on a national scale? (If so, I understood correctly.) Oh, and a link to o2 Energi.
I recently came across O2, a swedish wind-coop. They offer a membership share for 6200 SEK (~650 euro) which entitles you to use 1000 kWh/year for the production cost of 0,13 SEK/kWh (~0,015 euro/kWh) which translates to 10% of retail price. If you use less the rest can be sold. If you leave you can sell back your share.
You cut out the middle man in the investment-chain and invest in what you are going to consume. That way you decrease uncertainty for both seller and consumer/investor.
Is this basically what you are proposing but on a national scale? (If so, I understood correctly.)
Oh, and a link to o2 Energi.
They have 2000 members and own 3 wind power plants. This is apperently a working scale. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
Most projects were fairly small (1-5 turbines) and the investment was made by local cooperatives, or individual investors using the tax breaks initially proided by government.
It only fairly recently in Europe that projects have become larger (in the 20-100MEUR range) and mostly a business for professional developers, financial investors or utilities. (The US, with lots more room, has been mostly a large-scale industry all along).
But small projects are still happening, and are being financed by smaller banks which may be less sensitive to the global credit turmoil. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Any links, info, Google search words ?
Check out this reference paper for some ideas. There's lot's more on the web. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
I just wanted to point them out as a working example of what you are proposing.
Since most of the questions regard regulations I would guess that it is different from country to country, so the swedish information would hardly be useful anyway. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
