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In Germany, which has 630% more installed solar capacity than America, solar benefits from a demand-side incentive system called a feed-in tariff, which taps into rates rather than taxes to provide production incentives for rooftop solar.
Tyson Slocum: Solydra's Screwup Can't Stop the Rooftop Revolution Tyson Slocum 2011
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Variously known as feed-in tariffs, feed law, and CLEAN contracts, it involves a miniscule increase on utility rates to provide guaranteed long-term payments to small producers of renewable energy so that their projects get paid off with a small profit hence the "tariff" for certain energies fed in.
Anne Butterfield: Rocky Road for Clean Energy, Views Still Great Anne Butterfield 2011
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Nevertheless, since 1990 Germany has been imposing some form of what are now called "feed-in tariffs"—mandates that force utilities to pay above-market prices for wind, solar and other so-called renewable sources of energy.
Solyndra Does Europe 2011
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Variously known as feed-in tariffs, feed law, and CLEAN contracts, it involves a miniscule increase on utility rates to provide guaranteed long-term payments to small producers of renewable energy so that their projects get paid off with a small profit hence the "tariff" for certain energies fed in.
Anne Butterfield: Rocky Road for Clean Energy, Views Still Great Anne Butterfield 2011
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Germany, the world's biggest solar market, will probably reduce so-called feed-in tariffs, the rate paid to owners of solar installations in the country, by at least 20 percent from April, Citigroup analysts led by Timothy Arcuri wrote in a report e-mailed yesterday.
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The solar surge began April 1, when the government brought in so-called feed-in tariffs guaranteeing prices as much as 12 times the market rate for electricity generated from the sun.
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The solar surge began April 1, when the government brought in so-called feed-in tariffs guaranteeing prices as much as 12 times the market rate for electricity generated from the sun.
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In Ontario, project developers who qualify for relatively high power prices under its so-called "feed-in tariff" must buy as much as 60 per cent of their equipment from local suppliers.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed RICHARD BLACKWELL 2011
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They are expected to announce on Thursday a change to the way so-called feed-in tariffs are administered and an injection of funding for the scheme.
The Guardian World News Fiona Harvey 2012
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The so-called feed-in tariff - which pays owners of solar panels for electricity they generate for the National Grid - will be halved after December 12.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph View 2011
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