What would happen if the U.S. adopted the world’s flagship solar energy policy – a feed-in tariff? This policy is responsible for three-quarters of the world’s solar power capacity and offers the simplest mechanism for expanding production of solar power and other renewable energy.
Pricing CLEAN Contracts for Solar PV in the U.S.explores how such a policy (also known as CLEAN contracts) would be priced in the U.S. market, translating the world-leading German program to America. The report, authored by ILSR senior researcher John Farrell, accounts for the much greater solar resource in the U.S. and examines the price utilities would have to pay to obtain the most solar, most affordably.
The report examines what these prices would be with existing federal incentives and without, exploring the price states could pay to maximize their solar power potential.
CLEAN Rate for < 30 kW Rooftop Solar PV @ $3.50/W – ITC and depreciation
