National Public Radio Marketplace show had a story yesterday about net metering rules recently adopted by Massachusetts and the benefit to renewable (solar and wind) projects. You can listen at this link
The rules, paying retail rates for excess generation, have been adopted and include renewable energy facilities owned by municipalities.
Germany is mentioned in the story ...
... as having a lot of solar capacity. The leader in wind power are the Danes who generate almost 20% of their electrical energy from wind and have 3,129 MW of installed wind turbine capacity.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
NPR Marketplace talks about net metering
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GOV. PATRICK IS TELLING NATIONAL GRID WE ARE WILLING TO PAY THREE TIMES OUR CURRENT RATE FOR GREEN ENERGY !
http://www.bostonherald.com/business/general/view/20091202national_grid_in_talks_to_buy_wind_power/srvc=business&position=also
National Grid in talks to buy wind power
By Christine McConville
Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - Updated 5h ago
At today’s national gathering of wind energy developers in the Hub, the Patrick administration will announce a power purchase agreement between National Grid and Cape Wind, sources told the Herald.
The agreement signifies that Cape Wind, the proposed developer of a controversial wind farm on Nantucket Sound, has customers who are willing to pay more for green energy.
The deal surfaces just a day after the state approved a $44 million National Grid rate hike, the first in 14 years.
Sources say Gov. Deval Patrick, a Cape Wind supporter, planned to announce the deal in an address to the American Wind Energy Association, but Patrick was sick yesterday.
Also today, the University of Delaware will issue a report that shows for the first time that more than half of the people living on Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard support Cape Wind.
Cape Wind critics question the timing of the agreements and the report. Last month, National Grid rejected, for the second time, a Rhode Island wind developer’s request for a power purchase agreement. The utility said the wind-generated energy - at three times the cost of natural gas - would be too expensive.
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