Reposted from Lenz Blog: The EU Commission has published a Green Paper with the title “A 2030 framework for energy and climate policy.” This is a first step in discussing mid-term policy. The paper explains the policy goals in place for 2020, as well as legislation enacted to achieve those goals. … [continued]
Reposted from Lenz Blog: Paul Gipe just posted an article looking back at his three decades of renewable advocacy titled “100 Percent Renewable Vision Building.” In that article Gipe describes how reality has performed much better than what was expected decades ago. And now we are discussing 100 percent renewable. That … [continued]
Reposted from Lenz Blog with permission: The Japanese Cabinet just adopted a decision on energy policy (in Japanese) reflecting the fact that a consequence of the elections last year the former opposition party LDP is now governing. Thanks to this tweet by Hiro Matsubara for the link. It doesn’t say much about renewable energy, … [continued]
Reposted from Lenz Blog with permission: On Friday, the Japanese Ministry of Economy and Industry decided to follow the recommendations of the expert committee I reported on earlier. It’s now official. Small rooftop solar will get 38 yen (around 40.3 cents U.S or 31.5 cents Euro at today’s rates), and everything over 10 … [continued]
Reposted from Lenz Blog: Last week German Chancellor Merkel discussed the proposals of her ministers Altmaier and Rösler to reduce the cost of the German feed-in tariff system with the Governors of the German States. She needs their support in the Bundesrat for any change to the law. I recall having … [continued]
The Japanese law on feed-in tariffs (partial translation available here) requires that feed-in tariffs are revised for each business year, which starts on April 1 in Japan. That means that the feed-in tariffs for the year from April 1 will be announced by the Minister of Economy and Industry shortly. … [continued]
Reposted from Lenz Blog: Craig Morris posted about small Plug & Play solar panels in Germany, under the title of “The danger of solar after grid parity“. Since I don’t think that solar energy is dangerous, I was not happy about that headline. One of the “dangers” discussed in the … [continued]
