Daily Archives: July 28, 2009

Feed-in Tariffs, Solar Boon or Boondoggle

A feed-in tariff, or FiT, is designed as an incentive to energy producers to develop renewable energy sources, and usually consists of a rate, fixed by legislation, that guarantees higher returns than conventional energy sources. For example, if energy from fossil fuel generation were billed to customers 0.10 cents per kilowatt hour, energy from renewables [...]

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