Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Feed In Tariff in Ontario: On a Verge of Solar Boom

Having suspended Standard Offer Program (the first North America Feed In Tariff in recent twenty years) in 2008, on September 24, 2009 Ontario made its second attempt to create a green economy. Solar Feed In Tariff with a guaranteed price of 80.2 c/kWh for solar PV projects 10 kilowatts or less in size and 71.3 c/kWh for solar PV projects 250 kilowatts or less in size may trigger a solar boom in the province.

Can Ontario repeat the success of Germany? If so, we can expect installing 200-250 MW nameplate capacity even in the first year.

In the next couple of articles I will try to analyze opportunities created by the new initiative. We start with investment aspects of solar photovoltaics in Ontario.

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