Renewable Energy Insentives

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Permalink Reply by David Karabelnikoff on March 21, 2010 at 3:37pm

Germany's renewable energy sector is among the most innovative and successful worldwide. Nordex, Repower, Fuhrländer and Enercon are wind power companies based in Germany. SolarWorld, Q-Cells and Conergy are solar power companies based in Germany. These companies dominate the world market. Every third solar panel and every second wind rotor is made in Germany, and German turbines and generators used in hydro energy generation are among the most popular worldwide.

Germany is stimulating it's manufacturing industry with the feed in tariff, then they are exporting the technology world wide. If Germany is paying .45 euro cents per kwh then solar is getting closer to being economically viable @ the prices being paid in the villages .30-.50 cents.

In europe there is this notion that the ones whom can afford will pay for what needs to be done. Germany is a good example of this with the feed in tariff system.

The public funds being spend on the fossil fuel systems is more objectionable in my opinion than the structuring of the market to stimulate deployment of renewable as a fulfillment of their agreements under Kyoto protocol.

The idea that energy costing too much formed by an expectation of cheep energy, this is more of a mentality of entitlement than an economic reality. Further more the notion is questionable since few have paid the real price for energy.

The Feed in tariff is matched to the market to stimulate the private sector investment. When projects are being deployed the FIT is working, it will be adjusted with the deployment by technology classification.