These include a national REC market, feed-in-tariffs, tax incentives and so on and so forth.
China has targeted procurement policies for clean energy, and a variable feed-in tariff for wind power.
Mediterranean countries subsidized power companies with overly generous feed-in tariffs to stimulate the renewable sector.
Under the feed-in tariffs programme, people in Britain with solar panels are paid for the electricity they generate.
The subsidy agreements, called feed-in tariffs, are due to be cut in October.
The committee's only really bad idea is feed-in tariffs hefty subsidies to renewable energy of a sort used in many European countries.
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He's sometimes referred to as the father of the feed-in tariff that has helped wind and solar power succeed in Germany.
The work was originally planned for January but had to be brought forward to take advantage of the current feed-in tariffs.
Despite healthy volume, average selling price continued to decline as the Euro weakened and Germany transitioned to a new, lower feed-in-tariff regime.
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The government announced plans for a complex tender process to determine the feed-in-tariffs for new deals, but has yet to provide details.
They're guaranteed a price - a feed-in tariff - for their electricity when they sell it into the grid for 20 years.
The most energy-intensive consumers are shielded from the feed-in tariff, leaving ordinary folk, including pensioners and the unemployed, to foot the bill.
But shadow energy secretary Caroline Flint said the changes could amount to a 70% cut in the feed-in tariff (FIT) subsidy in just six months.
Carboy explained that in Europe, energy tariffs are "feed-in tariffs, " where customers who produce their own solar energy can sell back surplus power at premium rates.
Aerial mapping and analysis shows that some of the best roofs to invest in to harness this feed-in tariff are on rooftops of inner city Angelenos.
Well, not if this group of companies in exactly that position succeed in their legal challenge to the government's entire review of the Feed-in Tariff.
When the federal government tried to speed up cuts in the feed-in tariff for solar power, several states put up a fight, forcing a partial retreat.
The biggest driver of solar PV price declines has been German feed-in tariffs which are now being scaled back due to public concern about high subsides.
Leeds City Council said it had been planning to install about 1, 000 solar panels before March 2012 in order to benefit from the highest "feed-in" subsidies available.
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Bloomberg New Energy Finance began recording clean-energy investments in 2004, when oil prices began to rise and Germany introduced the feed-in tariffs that energized the solar industry.
Energy Minister Greg Barker is scheduled to publish details of a consultation into altering the so-called feed-in tariffs (FITs) in Parliament at around 10 a.m. on Monday.
Former Labour minister Ben Bradshaw accused the government of "staggering arrogance" over the "feed-in tariff fiasco", and called for ministers to abandon the "costly and doomed legal case".
The bill also includes a minimum price for carbon emissions and the setting of feed-in tariffs for individual consumers who are able to generate their own renewable energy supplies.
They are less efficient than a carbon price and distort the market witness Spain's solar feed-in tariff, which caused a boom in the industry, followed by a bust this year.
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Citi's Benson believes the German company Wacker Chemie should be least affected by the feed-in tariffs because of its low-cost position in polysilicon, a material used to make solar panels.
Already saddled by mismanagement and poor planning, renewable support programs like feed-in tariffs, have become easy targets for deficit reduction efforts in Spain, Italy and Greece these last few months.
He says the solar companies want to build capacity in front of changes in feed-in tariffs, since there tends to be a surge of solar installation demand ahead of subsidy changes.
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There's also the question of those who had already invested in solar schemes - in the reasonable expectation of benefiting from the Feed-in Tariff - before the government decided to change the rules.
Mr Huhne was confronted during energy questions on 26 January 2012 about his department's attempt to overturn a high court judgement that said ministers' decision to cut feed-in tariffs for solar power was unlawful.
He said initial reports should be completed within the next few weeks, with the council hoping to take advantage of government feed-in tariffs and subsidies which are set to drop later in the year.
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