Ontario Proposes Precedent-Setting Renewable Tariffs (Smarter Building Blog, Mar 12, 2009)
Topic: Renewable Energy
Category: Citizen
What is it? A blog post discussing Ontario’s planned system of renewable tariffs. Feed-in tariffs reward those who create more energy than they use and contribute it to the grid. Other tariffs will provide funds for building renewable technology such as wind turbines and solar panels. The tariff system will be the most comprehensive and highest paying in North America.
Author: Paul Gipe
Accessed: Mar 8, 2009
Support: George Smitherman, Ontario’s Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, who proposed the tariffs; and Ontario Power Authority, the organization responsible for planning the tariff system.
Usefulness: This plan to give monetary compensation to even the smallest producers of renewable energy could stimulate the growth of renewable energy. These programs have already been extremely successful in Europe, where a much higher percent of their energy comes from renewable sources, and we have the resources to generate more solar and wind than these countries. The only thing we need is a motivation to switch to renewable energy, and money usually gets quite a response.
Filed under: Citizen, Source Notes
