FIT Coalition submitted comments to California Air Resources Board (CARB)

The FIT Coalition submitted comments to the CARB addressing their first steps toward establishing an expansive 33%-by-2020 Renewable Electricity Standard (RES). The FIT Coalition outlines how CARB has a unique opportunity to enact a cost-effective, low-risk Feed-In Tariff (FIT) that would encourage further business investment in clean energy and help propel California toward its mandate of 33% renewable energy by 2020.  This comment submission was part of CARB's first round of public input on RES.

Download the complete comments here (PDF).

SEMI PV Group Supports the Feed In Tariff

SEMI analysis of the Feed In Tariff, RPS and synergy.

http://www.pvgroup.org/NewsArchive/ctr_031360

SMUD Introduces a Feed In Tariff for 2010

Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) plans a Feed In Tariff for
2010, up to 100 MW total, with time differentiated tariffs, and green
bonuses. Project sizes up to 5 MW, with these key differences from the
Southern California Edison pilot program:

• Contract Terms: 10, 15, 20 years
• Time Differentiated Tariffs
• No Technology Differentiation
• Tariffs based on avoided cost, value-based tariffs
• Includes tariffs for Combined Heat & Power

see: Etopia New Interview with SMUD's Jon
Bertolino<http://etopianews.blogspot.com/2009/07/jon-bertolino-at-smud-on-newly.html>

Draft SMUD Feed-in Tariff
Policy<http://www.wind-works.org/FeedLaws/USA/SMUD%20Feed-In%20Tariff%20Design%20April%202009.pdf>:
Note that the posted tariffs will be adjusted in November of 2009 to
reflect SMUD's revision of its wholesale costs of generation.

related article at www.wind-works.org

State Senate Energy Committee passes AB1106

The Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee passed AB1106 by a 6-2 vote. Next stop is the Senate Appropriations Committee.

California's Attorney General says Feed-In-Tariffs Legal in US

The AG's filing with the CPUC settles a long-standing question about whether federal law prevents states from setting wholesale energy prices with FITs.