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NREL Supports Feed-in Tariffs Best Practices
Best Practices are consistent with the SEMI PV Group White Paper

Dan MartinDan Martin,
Executive VP, Photovoltaics

A new report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) provides further momentum to the idea that feed-in tariff policies are the most effective way to encourage PV adoption in the US. The report, A Policymaker's Guide to Feed-in Tariff Policy Design (PDF) concludes, "The success of FIT policies has been attributed to the stability and certainty they offer for renewable energy investment...these policies create an environment that is conducive to leveraging capital toward RE deployment, which provides an effective framework for the wider adoption of RE technologies."

The NREL report is the most comprehensive analysis by a US government agency on feed-in tariff policy. It provides American policy makers a guide to policy best practices, as well as analysis on what are the advantages and disadvantages of each design element. In December of 2009, SEMI PV Group released a White Paper entitled, Advancing a Sustainable Solar Future: Policy Principles and Recommended Best Practices for Solar Feed-in Tariffs, that outlined our public policy principles in support of PV power adoption and recommended key best practices for feed-in tariff policy design and implementation. More...
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