Envisaging feed-in tariffs for solar photovoltaic electricity: European lessons for Canada
- 作者：Rowlands ; Ian H.
- 关键词：Canada ; Electricity ; European Union ; Feed-in tariffs ; Policies
- 刊名：Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
- 出版年：2005
- 期刊代码：44_13640321
- 类别：pw
- 出版时间：February, 2005
- 卷：9
- 期：1
- 页码：51-68
- 文件大小：271 K
摘要
While it is widely agreed that support schemes need to be put in place to promote the use of renewable electricity, there is less consensus as to what are the best kinds of strategies to use. What is attracting increasing attention in Canada is a system of renewable portfolio standards. In this, all power suppliers are under an obligation to ensure that a certain percentage of the electricity they generate is from renewable resources. They can either generate that electricity themselves or purchase ‘green certificates’ from those who have used renewables to generate electricity. Recent experience from Europe, however, suggests that a whole-hearted commitment to this single strategy could be premature and potentially damaging for the development of all kinds of renewable electricity in Canada, solar photovoltaics included. On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, the use of so-called ‘feed-in tariffs’ (that is, an obligation for utilities to purchase, at a set price, the electricity generated by any renewable energy resource) is widely credited with accelerating the development of renewable electricity in many countries.