First feed-in tariff in the United States successful: Florida town Gainesville to reach 7.3 MW of PV, 36 watts per resident in 2011
- The Gainesville City Commission approved the adoption of a solar photovoltaic (PV) feed-in-tariff in 2008
According to Wind-Works, the municipal utility serving the town of Gainesville in the U.S. state of Florida expects that it will have 7.3 MW of solar photovoltaics (PV) supplying electricity in its service area by the end of 2011.
Gainesville Regional Utility (GRU, Gainesville, Florida, U.S.) implemented a feed-in tariff for solar photovoltaics (PV) in 2008, as the first such policy in any town in the United States.
Gainesville reaches higher per-capita rate than California, Japan
The projected installations will mean that the town of 200,000 will reach a PV generation capacity of 36 watts per resident, a higher per-capita rate than California or Japan, despite the relatively short lifespan of the program.
GRU's program has been modified annually since its introduction, to reflect falling costs of PV generation. 37% of the new capacity has been installed on rooftop projects less than 100 kW in size.
2011-11-29| Courtesy: Wind-Works.org | solarserver.com © Heindl Server GmbH
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