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Paul Gipe

Giant Germany Utility Swears Off New Coal

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Paul Gipe

  RWE, one of Germany’s biggest utilities, has announced it will not build any more new coal plants. RWE currently ... Read more

Italy: Nuclear? Non Grazie!–Again–Berlusconi: Now It’s Renewables

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Paul Gipe

Conservative Prime Minister Says Italy Must Now Develop Renewable Energy Italy Sets 23,000 MW Solar Target-Tariffs Remain High Relative to Germany Solar to Reach ~10% of Supply by 2017

“We Can Do It” Says German Environment Agency on Nuclear Phase Out

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Paul Gipe

  The Conservative German government has issued a 14-page document outlining how Germany can close all its reactors by 2017 ... Read more

Ontario’s Feed-in Tariffs: Setting the Standard in North America

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Paul Gipe

Presentation by Paul Gipe for VerdeXchange, June 6, 2011, Toronto Ontario, including a proposal for revisions to Ontario's groundbreaking feed-in tariffs . . .

Nuclear Expensive and Uninsurable Say Studies

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Paul Gipe

New Nuclear Costs as Much as German Solar Today--Up to $0.34/kWh in 2018--Nuclear Insurance Costs More than Electricity Says German Report

Distributed Geothermal in California Can Add 7% of Supply

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Paul Gipe

What Feed-in Tariff Prices Are Necessary?

Distributed Geothermal in California Can Add 7% of Supply

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Paul Gipe

What Feed-in Tariff Prices Are Necessary?

Ecuador Adopts Feed-in Tariffs

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Paul Gipe

  The electricity authority of Ecuador adopted a system of feed-in tariffs for the development of renewable energy on April ... Read more

Malaysia Adopts Sophisticated System of Feed-in Tariffs

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Paul Gipe

3,000 MW New Renewables by 2020 1,250 MW of Solar Photovoltaics by 2020

Request for Proposals, Bidding, & Tendering: Successful Policy Mechanisms or Multiple Paths to Failure?

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Paul Gipe

  While I’ve written extensively about feed-in tariffs as a policy mechanism for rapidly developing renewable energy, I’ve written very ... Read more
Window on creation. solar powered lutheran church. schonau, southern germany.

Protecting Creation: Solar PV at Religious Institutions Driven by Feed-in Tariffs

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Paul Gipe

One powerful advantage of feed-in tariff policies for developing renewable energy is that they permit the participation of people from all walks of life.

Fukushima Nuclear Year-to-Year Reliability and German Wind

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Paul Gipe

German Wind more Stable Year-to-Year than Fukushima Reactors