Tuesday, September 8, 2009 1:22 am | Edgar A. Gunther
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Highlighting photovoltaics, the CPUC proposes a reverse auction for Feed-in Tariff (FiT) pricing of 1.5 MW (MegaWatt) to 10 MW Distributed Generation renewables.
Valuing lowest price over quality, time, and open, transparent markets?
Per ATTACHMENT A - System-Side Renewable Distributed Generation Pricing Proposal released on August 27, 2009, by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC):
RAM Proposal
Based on the guiding principles in Attachment C of the Ruling, staff recommends a market based pricing mechanism, or renewable auction mechanism (RAM)12
“Accelerating the Solar Economy”
Pending AB 560 and SB 32 legislation top CALSEIA’s priorities.
I discovered over a week ago the presentations from The 1st Annual SolarTech / CALSEIA Summit held in early May were online and had been for some time. When I inquired the day after the summit, I was informed it would take about a week to get them on the website. This derailed my post summit post intentions, and I moved onto pressing topics like Skyline Solar and power electronics.
SolarTech and CALSEIA
FiT to be grid tied?
I was astonished to find “Feed-In Tariffs and Why They Stink” by Michael Kanellos in the Green Light blog at Greentech Media when I checked the site Saturday. Mr. Kanellos said:
Spain created the worst possible scenario by setting high feed-in prices and then attempting to cap the program.
Spain did set the initial Feed-in Tariffs too high creating an unsustainable market driven by large multi MegaWatt installations powered by many imported solar modules. Photovoltaics were not visible to the average Spaniard, didn’t create the requisite green jobs, and Spanish photovoltaic manufacturers could not keep pace with exponential module demand growth.
By contrast
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