August 2009  

Feed-in Tariffs Have Earned a Role in US Energy Policy

Dan Martin,
Executive VP, Photovoltaics

While significant progress has been made in government funding and support of solar power in the United States, the most effective renewable energy policy and solar incentive available—the feed-in tariff—has yet to receive major attention outside of the Europe Union. Photovoltaic (PV) energy conversion is based on semiconductor technology, and the experience of the last decades has shown that the cost of PV electricity is reduced by 20% with each doubling of the total installed volume. Thus, it is necessary to design market incentives that allow for a rapid increase of the market size in order to quickly reach production volumes with the accompanying cost reductions to first reach parity with household electricity rates, and later with production costs of fossil and nuclear energy.
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