Oct292009
Solar feed-ins - so popular they’re handed out by lottery
Filed under Alternative energy by david brooks at 8:36 am
Vermont has the nation’s first statewide feed-in tariff for solar power, that will eventually add 12.5 megawatts of peak power, or almost 1 percent of the state’s electric usage. Basically, people or companies participating will get paid an artificially high rate for the power they produce (30 cents per kilowatt-hour, about three times the rate in southern N.H.) as an incentive to install the panels. Such tariffs are cited as the main reason that Germany and Spain, among other places, have such large amounts of solar power.
The Burlington Free-press reports that so many people signed up for the tariffs that they’re being given out by lottery.
Speaking of solar power, the announced arrival of a solar-panel manufacturing plant in Hudson, N.H., bringing at least 100 relatively high-paying jobs, as the Lowell Sun notes, is good news on the “green tech” front.
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