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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- No
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- Sorry right now I am caretaker for two elderly people and leaves me short of time. However working over the computer is definitely possibility. My family are all green as possible and found this website looking to see if feasable to have our own wind mill.....we have alot of sun and are considering solar for water and heat and air conditioning should have done it years ago but we are all a bunch of sheep following the lead one with the bell....
I am anxious to read alot more and are investing in GE since they are making the parts.....Would love to join Mr. Pickins % million dollar club but not just yet hahah.....am considering that $1000 a share one I saw on one site....Is that backed by Mr. Pickins organization.....another words reliable??
- What excites you about this campaign?
- I saw the windmills over 15 years ago when I drove to Calf and wondered what they were and what they were used for and thought at that time what a wonderful idea. Now it seems to be the solution the the whole crisis in this country....Jobs Housing Heating and the list goes on that is why I am excited....
- What do you want to do to help?
- Help pass the word along
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Please visit www.FAREnergy.org - The Florida Alliance for Renewable Energy would like to make Florida a leader in solar energy. Since 1991, Germany, Spain, Denmark, and over 40 other nations, states, and provinces, have pioneered legislation that have proven to promote the fastest, cheapest, and widest growth of renewable energy. In many of these countries these policies are called "Feed-In Tariffs" (FITs). Producers of renewable energy are paid a premium rate or "tariff" for each kilowatt of energy they "feed into" the grid. Here in North America FITs are being called, "Renewable Energy Payments" (REPs). The name has changed but the fundamental principles of these policies stay the same:Everyone who produces renewable energy is guaranteed that they can connect to the power grid and sell their energy to their utility company. There is no limit to the amount of renewable energy that can be sold to utility companies.
Utility companies sign 15-20 year contracts with all their renewable energy producers. All contracts are transparent and open for inspection.
The contracts include long-term agreed upon prices that the utility companies will pay for the energy they buy. The prices are set high enough to be an incentive to new producers and for existing producers to expand their production capacities. Prices vary according to the source of the energy (i.e, sun, wind, water, bio-mass, etc.) and the size of the energy-producing installation.
The utility companies can recoup their increased costs of paying higher prices for renewable energy by spreading these costs among all their customers.
An Independent Review Board is established by the government that periodically sets the prices and terms for new contracts.
How do REPs work?
Renewable Energy Payments are the mechanisms or instruments at the heart of specific state, provincial or national renewable energy policies. REPs are incentives for homeowners, farmers, businesses, etc., to become producers of renewable energy, or to increase their production of renewable energy. As such, they increase our overall production and use of renewable energy, and decrease our consumption and burning of fossil fuels.
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Faye Roller - Administartive Director
Florida Alliance for Renewable Energy
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