Feed-in Tariffs

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Comment by Clyde Childers on June 11, 2009 at 11:09am

Well Ray Vermont has enacted feed-in rate for the wind power at 10 cents a kWh. A tower that reach 350 feet or 120 meters in the air be ought to be able to find some spots to put up a tower

Cheers
Clyde

Comment by Ray Osborne on June 11, 2009 at 10:51am

>Would you like to earn $250,000 by selling wind energy into the grid or solar from your backyard by installing a 1 MW machine. You could you know! see http://www.buildamericabuild.com

Are there any case studies where people are doing this? Or is this theoretical?

-RKO

Comment by Clyde Childers on May 7, 2009 at 11:36am

only good for $2000 a year who cares!! ay limited in size HB1048 would been a good place to feed-in tariff. Not even close to Germany, France, Italy,Spain, etc, etc,etc ,China,etc,. Anotherwords, this is just another phony attempt of feed-in traiffs.

Comment by Robert Schultz on May 7, 2009 at 11:18am

Here's what our friends at Avista pay in Spokane County

Incentive payment table
Types of Customer-generated power
and economic development factor
Incentive payment
rate - Base rate
(0.15) multiplied by
applicable economic
development factor
Kilowatthours
generated
Incentive payment
amount equals
incentive payment
rate multiplied by
Kilowatt- hours
generated
Solar modules manufactured in
Washington state
Factor: 2.4(two and four-tenths)
$0.36
Solar or wind generating equipment
with an inverter manufactured in
Washington state Factor: 1.2(one and
two-tenths)
$0.18
Anaerobic digester or other solar
equipment or wind generator equipped
with blades manufactured in
Washington state
Factor: 1.0(one)
$0.15
All other electricity produced by wind
Factor: 0.8(eight-tenths)
$0.12
Solar modules manufactured in
Washington state with an inverter
manufactured in Washington state
Factor: 3.6 (three and six-tenths)
$0.54

Comment by Clyde Childers on May 7, 2009 at 1:41am

Let make certain we understand the math. One house with 3000 sq ft of living space would be able to have 1000 sq ft of solar panels. Solar is 12% efficient to day. 9 square feet of sunlight has 1000 watts of power. Avetrage sun day in western Oregon is 4 suns. So, 1000/9*.12 *4 hours of sun=52 kilowatts of power. 52*365* $.35( for feed-in tariff)=$6,643 for power annually, Your contract is for 20 years. Or your eanring power for you house would be $132,000 Certanlhy would add to valjue of your home Great.

Let look at your back yard. . A 1 MW wind turbine installed in gorge where the wind blows around 7 m/sec at hub height of 80 meters. That would have a capacity factor of 30%. Assuming the feed-in rate is .09 cent kWh which has been propose, the calcuations are as follow .30*1000(kw)*24 hours*365 day* .09= $236,520 annually you get paid. Wow, assuming that it cost a $1.5M incluing installation, at 150,000 a year payment, you would pay back in 10 years or less. Some state are allow 2MW as the name plate for the feed-in rates.

Come on baby build baby build!!!!

Comment by Clyde Childers on May 7, 2009 at 1:19am

Remember what give old industries who employ fewer people joy are tax credits because they can't invent any more;but what build new companies are healthy markets not tax credits. Junk the PTC, Junk the BETC, real market are what we need not some phony ideas of old worn out policies!!

Comment by Clyde Childers on May 7, 2009 at 1:13am

Feed-in Tariffs will put American to work. You can't offshore a wind turbine or solar panel on house,in your back yard, or on your farmer or ranch. You must wash the solar panels and must fix the wind turbines. You need to trainer construction and electricians to install. You would employ million of Americans. Think of it, your household can earn $5,000 annually on your roof, or in back yard you could earn up $500,000 a year under feed-in tariffs. The argument against feed-in tariffs is the cost you pay for energy. But with 200 MW caps for solar and wind start with, it cost would be $.25 cent a month more in electricity. Not much of a cost to bear to have clean air or a world that we can leave to our children. It would set the plains states on fire, allow for distribute generations, and reduce our need for carbon fuels.
Tax policy don't last, they are temporary, and hence our industries again will leave for green pastures. oversea again leave us with no jobs. Tax credit only apply to society that has jobs, we dont have them any more because of policies that we have enacted. . We can enact,we can build America,and we can leave our children with a society who has jobs,and more jobs, and more, more jobs. Let build,baby lets build

Comment by Robert Schultz on May 6, 2009 at 10:35pm

Clyde,
I will post some info about FiT on the page for NW Renewable Energy Group. Just checked on Wikipedia as a starting point. I'm sure you can help fill us in on the details.

http://push.pickensplan.com/group/nwrenewableenergygroup

Comment by Robert Schultz on May 6, 2009 at 6:18pm

Clyde,
I haven't read much about feed-in tariffs, but I am all for building alternative energy systems for homeowners. We should be able to produce enough energy for our own homes, and do away with ridiculous power bills.

I went to Oregon State, straight out of high school in 1980. I probably should have waited until I knew what I wanted to do, because it sure wasn't doing my homework! I finally graduated with a BSME from Gonzaga in 1996 after working for a few circuit board companies. I'd like to build small windmills at home eventually.