Feed-in tariffs

The potential of stationary fuel cells for distributed generation depends on feed-in tariff policies and electricity and gas prices, as well as on market competition from gas engines and small turbines. SOFCs and MCFCs, mostly fuelled by natural gas, are likely to play an important role for combined heat and power generation in buildings. 

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), most of the existing PV installations are in Germany (40%) and the United States (13%). In Germany, the power companies "buy back" the solar-generated electric power at a rate that is secured for 20 years. This is called a Feed-in Tariff... 

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The government s feed in tariff pays a tax-free sum which is guaranteed for 25 years. 

The use of small hydropower (SHP) or micro-hydropower has grown over recent decades led by continuous technical developments, brought about partly in the UK by the 2010 coalition government s feed in tariff where green electricity producers are paid a premium to produce electricity from renewable sources. 

For information on the feed in tariff scheme see the Office of the Gas and Electricity Markets (OFGEM) website at www.ofgem.gov.uk/fits. 

Beside the global trend the specifie plant size depends on the local availability of biogas and on political preferences and support. In Germany the recent revision of the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG2012) offers a special feed-in tariff for small-scale biogas plants... 

DG-CHP Europe Economic savings, increase in energy efficiency, European and country policies on CHP, feed-in tariffs and incentives World 2 GW Europe 1 GW... 

One means to address the issue of the current overly expensive stationary fuel cell systems is to provide some form of financial support from the public sector. Public support is an important early market incentive for stationary fuel cells systems, be this in the form of capital subsidies (e.g.. North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany [106]) or capital support and feed-in-tariff style pricing (e.g.. South Korea [107]) or capital and other incentives available in the USA, usually at the State level, where incentives vary up to 5500/kWe. This support goes some way toward negating the higher prices of stationary fuel cell systems when compared with competitive systems. 

At present, depending on which country, you live in hurdles such as actually procuring the units, grid interconnection issues, feed-in tariffs and monitoring of the fuel cell make planning a fuel cell-powered home somewhat challenging. 

Do you have a feed-in tariff in place and can this be used in conjunction with net metering ... 

UK by the 2010 coalition government s feed-in tariff where green electricity producers are paid a premium to produce electricity from renewable sources. 

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