The Swiss have adopted feed in tariffs which have been in place for several years and due to be reviewed this year in 2010. The feed in tariff is attractive and it lasts for 25 years (the longest outside of Spain), however there is a catch. The brilliant men in charge managed to create a system which adds a very small amount to the cost of energy within the country (it is called a systems benefits charge and it is about 0.006 SWF/kWh for all electricity used in the country) and this value is then used to set the cap for renewable energy installed in the entire country (150% of all funds collected is the cap - only about 300 million Euros). It sounds smart, but the catch lies in the fact that only about 5% of this is applied to solar installations. So while the numbers look good on the surface, the cap is so low that large numbers of projects are waiting to be included in the feed in tariff scheme. Only one kind of person could have devised such an ineffective and one sided evil scheme with a pretty wrapper on it - a banker.
Probably Scrooge himself.
| Switzerland |
25 year feed in tariff |
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Free field |
Roof installation |
BIPV |
| <10 kWp |
CHF 0.65 |
CHF 0.75 |
CHF 0.90 |
| <30 kWp |
CHF 0.54 |
CHF 0.65 |
CHF 0.75 |
| <100 kWp |
CHF 0.51 |
CHF 0.62 |
CHF 0.67 |
| >100 kWp |
CHF 0.49 |
CHF 0.60 |
CHF 0.62 |
Switzerland's Feed In Tariff Comment:
Click the money bags below to get today's conversion rates in EUR from www.xe.com I don't link to dollar conversions because it is currently too unstable.
