Wind power: some lessons from 2006 | 18 comments (18 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Wind power: some lessons from 2006 (4.00 / 3)

For the acronym-impaired:

PTC = Production Tax Credit

http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/clean_energy_policies/production-tax-credit-for-renewable-energy. html

I note that the USA PTC is not available to residential producers, coupled with your note about no evidence of economy of scale it might be something that can be improved upon?

What is the regulatory framework currently in France?

I've read EDF currently has to buy offshore wind kWh at 0.13 euros and onshore wind kWh at 0.082 euros for the first ten years (lower after that).

by Laurent GUERBY on Sun Jun 3rd, 2007 at 12:21:14 PM EST

3 main frameworks (4.00 / 3)

feed-in tariffs
producers that quality as 'renewable' get the right to sell to the grid all their production at a guaranteed price (Germany, France, Portugal);
green certificates
producers that quality as 'renewable' get the right to sell 'green certificates' in addition to their electricity (which they must sell on the market like other producers). Green certificates have a value created either by a minimum price paid for them by regulation (Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium) or because non-renewable producers have an obligation to purchase a given volume of them (Australia, UK, Italy);
tax support
producers that quality as 'renewable' get the right to tax breaks linked to initial investment costs (the Netherlands) or to actual production volumes (US federal PTC)

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon Jun 4th, 2007 at 06:14:52 AM EST
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Wind power: some lessons from 2006 | 18 comments (18 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)