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If you have time to answer, were there any governments involved via subsidies, tax breaks, feed-in tariffs, or such?

The reason that I ask is that I'm doing some research on the subject in preparation for a push next year in the WA state legislature. They've completely dropped the ball for the last three to four years. In fact they've actually weakened our citizens' initiative, I-937, in the last two legislative sessions.

paul spencer

by paul spencer (paulgspencer@gmail.com) on Fri Jul 24th, 2009 at 10:51:21 PM EST
In Belgium, there are two mechanisms to help offshore:
  • a "green certificate" mechanism allocated to green energy, which adds 10.7c/kwh for offshore wind projects, paid for by the grid operator (and passed on to power consumers) - the same exists for other renewable projects, with different values for the certificate depending on the technology
  • a specific subsidy to build the offshore cable, also provided by the grid operator


In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sat Jul 25th, 2009 at 02:51:36 AM EST
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