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Paul Gipe

San Antonio Muni To Launch Limited Solar FIT

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Paul Gipe

  Another utility has announced that it will voluntarily launch a limited solar PV feed-in tariff. The municipal utility serving ... Read more

Irish Minister of Energy Announces Microgeneration Net Tariff

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Paul Gipe

Small Wind Included

More on Japan’s New Ruling Party (DPJ) and Feed-in Tariffs

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Paul Gipe

  Bloomberg is reporting that Japan’s new ruling party, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), is expected to propose a ... Read more

UN’s Economic Department Suggests Feed-in Tariffs for Developing World

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Paul Gipe

  The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) issued a policy brief in August that called for ... Read more

China Launches Differentiated Wind Energy Tariffs

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Paul Gipe

  China has instituted a new system of differentiated wind energy tariffs based on four wind energy zones. The move ... Read more

Indianapolis Power & Light Proposes Modest Midwestern Feed-in Tariff Program

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Paul Gipe

The central Indiana utility joins a growing list of Midwestern utilities with voluntary programs.

South Australia Weighs Timid Solar Tariff

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Paul Gipe

  South Australia has released a draft of a modest, some would say timid, solar PV feed-in tariff that will ... Read more

Senator Kehoe AB 1106 California Feed-in Tariff Policy–support if amended

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Paul Gipe

  The Honorable Senator Christine Kehoe Chair, Senate Appropriations Committee State Capitol, Room 5050 Sacramento, CA 95814 By FAX to: ... Read more

Sierra Club California Feed-in Tariff Filings & Comments

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Paul Gipe

  Sierra Club California has actively supported development of feed-in tariff policy in the Golden State. Sierra Club activists in ... Read more

WWEA’s Wind Energy International 2009/2010-A Review

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Paul Gipe

This is a book that was done right. It was written by the right people for the right reasons and printed on quality paper in full color.

WWEA’s Wind Energy International 2009/2010-A Review

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Paul Gipe

The World Wind Energy Association’s “Wind Energy International 2009/2010” landed on my desk with a reassuring thump. I picked it ... Read more
Cleanfield turbine near Hamilton, Ontario. Photo by Martin Ince, www.mkince.ca.

Press Release: Cleanfield Energy Receives UL Certification for Its 3.5 kW Vertical Axis Wind Turbine

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Paul Gipe

Press release using a common ploy to confuse amateurs by announcing UL certification. UL only certifies electrical performance not whether the wind turbine will work as a wind turbine or work well at all.