http://cleantechnica.com/2013/04/01/community-power-in-the-global-community-vol-ii-the-netherlands/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 08:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 http://cleantechnica.com/2013/04/01/community-power-in-the-global-community-vol-ii-the-netherlands/#comment-157667 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:43:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=50112#comment-157667 Good to hear. Well, except for the part about the lack of awareness.

]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/04/01/community-power-in-the-global-community-vol-ii-the-netherlands/#comment-156903 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:31:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=50112#comment-156903 In the Netherlands there is no need for subsidies for photovoltaics. Or more accurately, there is already a very high indirect subsidy: Net metering. This means that the amount of power you produce is subtracted from the amount of power you consume. So your feed-in-tariff is the same as the price you pay to the utility. Since the kWh-price for private consumers is currently around 23€ct/kWh and the cost of PV is around 18 €ct/kWh PV is already a worthwhile investment. I think there is just a missing awareness of this fact in the Netherlands.

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