Featured in Step on the gas – 12-2012

Global FIT overview

Feed-in tariffs: Australia jumped the gun on its planned FIT cuts. France is jumping on the domestic content bandwagon and planning to move to an auction system. Germany greatly overshot its target ‘corridor,’ triggering steep degressions in the coming months. And the Tennessee Valley Authority has tweaked its incentive program.

Australia Victoria: The Coalition government had planned to reduce Victoria’s feed-in tariff (FIT) from AU$0.25/kWh to AU$0.08/kWh on January 1, 2013, but they pushed the deadline forward. The last applications for the old FIT were received on September 30 and currently the new tariff of AU$0.08/kWh is available, which is actually far lower than Australia’s …

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