Gainesville, Florida, Approves First U.S. Solar Feed-in Tariff. By Jacquelyn Weiner, Florida Alligator, February 8, 2009. "Gainesville will be the first city in the U.S. to implement a solar feed-in tariff, city commissioners decided in an unanimous vote Thursday. 'What we're doing here today is moving to the new way of doing things,' Commissioner Lauren Poe said at Thursday's meeting. The new feed-in tariff will allow Gainesville Regional Utilities to purchase 100 percent of the energy generated in the city via solar panels, commercial and residential alike. The tariff is expected to be in place by March 1. This energy will be produced at $0.32 per kilowatt-hour and sold back to the private citizen or business for $0.12 per kilowatt-hour. This full compensation provides a greater incentive for long-term investment in renewable energy. Previously, those with solar panels were only partially reimbursed for the energy produced. Gainesville's feed-in tariff is modeled after such tariffs already in place in Europe. Because it is the first time such a program has been created in the U.S., Gainesville's feed-in tariff has received both national and international attention. The tariff was a major topic of discussion Tuesday at the Florida Alliance for Renewable Energy...conference in Tallahassee."
2009-02-09
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