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Germany’s upper house to put solar feed in tariffs cuts on hold
The Bundesrat, Germany's upper house of parliament, decided to temporarily suspend the planned sharp reduction in solar feed-in tariffs last week, sending the controversial proposals to an arbitration panel, move that represented a blow for Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has been struggling for months to force through cuts to feed-in tariffs of between 20 and 40 per cent.
read more... 15/05/2012
China reduces solar incentives on falling costs of components
The incentives for demonstration sun-power projects have been reduced this year in China by 21 percent due to slashing costs for panel components. The government has cut the feed-in tariffs to 5.5 Yuan (87 cents) a watt from the 7 Yuan set in February.
read more... 04/05/2012
Los Angeles to launch feed-in tariffs program
Los Angeles City Council approved on Tuesday a feed-in tariff program that will allow the City’s Department of Water and Power to purchase renewable power from projects up to 3 MW.
read more... 06/04/2012
Spain halts the award of new feed-in tariff contracts
The new center-right Spanish government decided to halt temporarily the award of new feed-in tariff contracts starting January 2013 amid rising fiscal challenges. This could affect negatively about 4,500 MW and 550 MW of wind and solar PV power projects respectively, as well as other energy classes’ projects.
read more... 23/03/2012
Switzerland launches new feed-in tariffs taking effect on March 1
At the beginning of February, Switzerland’s Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications announced the new feed-in tariffs for renewable energy considering steadily changing costs. The new feed-in tariffs for photovoltaics, wind power and biomass from timber came into force on March 1, 2012. PV power will receive lower feed-in tariffs by 10 percent. Wind power feed-in tariffs were tweaked, while woody biomass power will benefit of slightly higher FITs. Other technologies will get the same feed-in tariffs.
read more... 21/03/2012