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Vermont Feed-in Tariffs Become Law
In light of yesterday's post, this is good news.
The basic idea with feed-in tariffs is the electricity utilities are obligated to purchase electricity fed into the grid from distributed generators using renewable sources at above-market rates to offset the cost disadvantage that renewables have against fossil fuels. In simpler terms: Put up solar panels and sell the electricity they generate to the electricity utilities for a fair price.
This is on the heels of Canada’s Green Energy Act, which traces back to what’s been going on in Germany’s neighborhood 
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All of this, of course, makes me wonder about its implications in context among the climate bill and the smart grid. This might be something I ask in the Smart Grid Followup, which is from 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM in room 401 of the Heber Wells Building in case anyone is interested.