Feed-in Tariffs Saved French Ratepayers Money They Would Have Otherwise Spent

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by Cécile Bordier, Caisse des Dépôts, December 2008 This was a report in English by the French Bank, Caisse des … Read more

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Solar Advocates Warn of Overheating French PV Market

  Two excellent documents have been released by the Association négaWatt in France. These reflect on the electricity crisis in … Read more

Design Elements of Feed-in Tariffs: Spain, Germany, France and Ontario

Also To Introduce First Solar Tariffs Differentiated by Insolation

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French law acknowledging the 23% renewable target and specifically lists a target for wind energy of 25,000 MW, and for Solar PV of 5,300 MW by 2020. These targets are so high that analysts consider that France has no cap on the contribution of wind and solar PV in the mid term.

Because of Bernard Chabot’s work in North America describing a simple method for calculating the appropriate tariffs to use in … Read more