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The nice thing about the feed-in tariffs is that all the countries that have good tariffs for big projects (like Spain) have even better ones for microgeneration (I think it's about 50 euros a kWh better in spain), so you get to have both. The ideal is obviously to have microgeneration on most rooves that can support them, with big utility projects in wind, solar thermal, CPV, hydro and eventually tidal and wave adding big numbers to the multitude of smaller installations.

My priority is getting the number of megawatts supplying electricity renewably up as fast and effectively as possible. Every possible tech and scale is needed.

by darrkespur on Wed Jul 9th, 2008 at 07:42:00 AM EST
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Wind is typically big utility project in the US, but less so in much of the EU (but, well, big utilities are on it just in Spain). Good for farmers. I'm somewhat sceptical of tidal and wave; not because of technology, but total energy harvestable (at least on the shores of the EU). But even if a small part, they can be part of the mix.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Wed Jul 9th, 2008 at 09:12:18 AM EST
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