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California Feed-in Tariff for Poor Communities Passes Assembly
California Feed-in Tariff for Poor Communities Passes Assembly
By Paul Gipe, Contributor
June 1, 2012
A bill to create feed-in tariffs for the poor and the disadvantaged passed the California Assembly on 30 May 2012.
...The move is the first significant action on feed-in tariffs in California during this legislative session. It is also the first time in North America that advocates for the poor and disadvantaged have called for equal opportunity to develop renewable energy through the use of feed-in tariffs.
...CEJA's (California Environmental Justice Alliance) bill has received support from some 70 non-governmental organizations that includes a who's who of the California environmental and social justice community, including Sierra Club California, Union of Concerned Scientists, Natural Resources Defense Council, Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN), and Environment California.
Though CEJA dubs the legislation "Solar for All", the bill itself calls for "clean energy contracts" from all "eligible renewable energy resources" in California.
- Project size cap: 500 kW
- Program cap: 375 MW by 2020 at a "regular annual pace"
- Term: minimum of 20 years
- Program launch: 2014
- Tariffs: "sufficient to stimulate the market" in low-income communities, create a diverse range of project sizes and achieve the environmental justice objectives
- Reporting: annual
- Administration and Rate Setting: Public Utility Commission (PUC) & local public utilities
- Cost recovery: ratepayers
- Cost cap: 0.375% of forecast retails sales in 2020
- "Eligible" Technologies: Solar Thermal Electric, Photovoltaics, Landfill Gas, Wind, Biomass, Geothermal Electric, Municipal Solid Waste, Energy Storage, Anaerobic Digestion, Small Hydroelectric, Tidal Energy, Wave Energy, Ocean Thermal, Biodiesel, Fuel Cells using Renewable Fuels
...
By Paul Gipe, Contributor
June 1, 2012
A bill to create feed-in tariffs for the poor and the disadvantaged passed the California Assembly on 30 May 2012.
...The move is the first significant action on feed-in tariffs in California during this legislative session. It is also the first time in North America that advocates for the poor and disadvantaged have called for equal opportunity to develop renewable energy through the use of feed-in tariffs.
...CEJA's (California Environmental Justice Alliance) bill has received support from some 70 non-governmental organizations that includes a who's who of the California environmental and social justice community, including Sierra Club California, Union of Concerned Scientists, Natural Resources Defense Council, Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN), and Environment California.
Though CEJA dubs the legislation "Solar for All", the bill itself calls for "clean energy contracts" from all "eligible renewable energy resources" in California.
- Project size cap: 500 kW
- Program cap: 375 MW by 2020 at a "regular annual pace"
- Term: minimum of 20 years
- Program launch: 2014
- Tariffs: "sufficient to stimulate the market" in low-income communities, create a diverse range of project sizes and achieve the environmental justice objectives
- Reporting: annual
- Administration and Rate Setting: Public Utility Commission (PUC) & local public utilities
- Cost recovery: ratepayers
- Cost cap: 0.375% of forecast retails sales in 2020
- "Eligible" Technologies: Solar Thermal Electric, Photovoltaics, Landfill Gas, Wind, Biomass, Geothermal Electric, Municipal Solid Waste, Energy Storage, Anaerobic Digestion, Small Hydroelectric, Tidal Energy, Wave Energy, Ocean Thermal, Biodiesel, Fuel Cells using Renewable Fuels
...
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/06/california-feed-in-tariff-for-poor-communities-passes-assembly?cmpid=SolarNL-Tuesday-June5-2012
