SEIA trashes Gainesville Solar Feed-in Tariff

(Jun 4, 2009) [Munich, Germany] A funny thing happened at the PV Industry Forum 2009. Solar Policy Not Invented by the SEIA? Legal challenges for state Feed-in Tariff policies. At the PV Industry Forum held last week before Intersolar 2009, Solar Energy Industries Association ( SEIA ) President & CEO Rhone Resch presented “ New and emerging developments in the US solar market ” in Session 1: PV Markets .   From PV Industry Forum 2009 After his presentation, an attendee asked: Would you tell me about the utility market in the United States at this moment? Midway through his description of national solar developments in the evolving US utility market, Mr. Resch homed in on the Gainesville Regional Utilities (GRU) Solar Photovoltaic Feed-in Tariff (FiT) program (please see Feed-in Tariffs: Solar FiT for Gainesville, Florida! ). Mr. Resch said: You are now seeing Gainesville Florida had the first Feed-in Tariff in the country. It was poorly designed; it will probably give Feed-in Tariffs a bit of a black eye in the US. But at least it was the first. And so the same way in Germany where you saw a city develop a Feed-in Tariff. We are now having that occur in the United States. Very important policy...

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