Feed-In Tariffs for European Countries

[nad]

Hi everybody,

I am researching feed-in tariffs for my master thesis. Is there anybody who can help me finding the tariffs for:
Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Greece?
It would also be interesting to know what the difference between PV and CSP technology is regarding feed-in tariffs.

I would really appreciate your help. :-)

[Dwayne Lawrence]

Hello, Nad

Attached below is a general article enitled: Powering on - The finances of solar energy in Europe by Edward Milford, Publisher Emeritus, of Renewable Energy World from 2007 that may be helpful to you, although it does not cover all aspects.

Best wishes on your Master's thesis!
-Dwayne in Beijing
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dwaynelawrence

[Dwayne Lawrence]

Various Feed-in Tariffs for Portugal, Greece, Spain, France & Italy

Source: SolarPACES Newspage (except Italy)
http://www.solarpaces.org/News/news.htm

Portuguese Feed-in-Tariff for CSP published in 2007
A new feed-in tariff for solar electricity was published in Portugal in 2007, granting 0.27 €/kWh for CSP plants up to 10MW and 0.16-0.20 €/kWh for CSP plants beyond 10MW.

Greek Feed-in-Tariff for CSP published in 2006
Law 3468/2006 Generation Of Electricity Using Renewable Energy Sources And High-Efficiency Cogeneration Of Electricity And Heat And Miscellaneous Provisions (Official Gazette A’ 129) was published in 2006 and grants solar energy exploited in units employing a technology other than that of photovoltaics with an installed capacity up to five (5) MWe 0.25 €/kWh on the main land and 0.27 €/kWh on non-interconnected islands

New Spanish Royal Decree 661/2007
The feed-in tariff regulations of Royal Decree 436/2004 have been refined with the recent Royal Decree 661 from 2007. Basic change with respect to RD436 is the decoupling from the market reference price, which increased with oil price increases and automatically increased renewable tariffs with the oil price. A fixed tariff of 0.269375Euro/kWh is granted for CSP plants up to 50MW for 25years, increasing yearly with inflation minus 1 percent point. The CSP target was increased to 500MW by 2010.

French Feed-in-Tariff for CSP published in 2006
A new feed-in tariff for solar electricity was published in France on July 26, 2006, granting 0.30 €/kWh (0.40 €/kWh in overseas) plus extra 0.25 €/kWh if integrated to building (+0.15 €/kWh in overseas). This tariff is limited to solar only installations with less than 12MW capacity and less than 1500hours/year operation. For production over this limit the tariff is 0.05 €/kWh.

Italy Feed-in-Tariff for Solar Photovoltaics
1-20kWp 0,445 eur/kWh
20-50kWp 0,460 eur/kWh
50-1000kWp 0,490 eur/kWh (maximum value)
From 2007, the tariffs will be reduced by 2% every year.
More Information (in Italian) at:
http://www.grtn.it/ita/fotovoltaico/IncentivazioneEnergiaFotovoltai...

[nad]

Thank you very much.

Do you know something about India? Do they have feed-in tariffs?

[Dwayne Lawrence]

Hi, Nad
See article, contact and policy paper below...

Scaling Up Solar in India
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=51685
February 28th, 2008

Excerpt:
"The government of India has announced subsidy plans of US $750/KW for installed capacity of residential or commercial use, with a maximum of US $1,250/household. For community and institutional use the subsidy is higher, at US $1,250/KW. The government has also announced feed-in-tariffs of up to US $0.30 per unit (KWh). This is up to 75% of of the generation costs of PV, which range between US $0.38 to $0.75 per unit.

Apparently, there may be state/province-level feed-in tariff policies that may apply in India as well.
The national regulator is India's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE)
http://mnes.nic.in/

Attached is a July 2007 PDF background paper on solar policies in India (it is a 1MB+ attachment).
Also suggest you contact CSP Member, Rajiv Gupta directly through this site for more info.
He's the CEO of Solwin Energy Ltd. in New Delhi and should know more.
http://www.solwinenergy.com/contact_us.htm

[nad]

Thanks a lot Dwayne!