Feed-in Tariffs in Europe

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Feed-in Tariffs in Europe

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This report provides a comprehensive understanding of how several European countries are evaluating reductions in tariffs for renewables in the future, driven by lower technology module prices and continuing economic hardship across the EU.

The analysis illustrates how FiTs are impacting the growth of renewables in Europe. The brief will particularly benefit project developers, equipment manufacturers, utilities, and finance providers looking at potential for investment within Europe, helping them to examine the key opportunities and challenges.Provides a keen understanding of the FiT mechanism and the diverse role it plays in promoting renewables generation in Europe. Provides a trend assessment of the FiT mechanism by analyzing Europe's experience with solar tariff structures and other implementation challenges.Provides insights into how Europe's FiT policy will realign itself with the EU's renewables growth strategy up to 2020.Evaluates Europe's FiT policies by identifying the existing FiT payment options and their role among regulatory policies in Europe. Evaluated the recent FiT policy trends that are impacting renewable power project developers across Europe. Investors seeking to enter the renewables market will find that the EU's energy regulatory and policy landscape is continuously evolving. FiTs act to support growth in renewables generation in Europe. Several countries in Europe including Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Czech Republic, and the UK are either reducing their solar PV FiTs or evaluating the prospects of FiT reductions in the future, in view of declining PV module prices and continuing economic hardship in the EU. Despite the recent FiT cuts, Europe is likely to remain bullish on solving climate change concerns, securing energy security, and reducing carbon emission levels by 2020. European policymakers should realign their renewables market growth strategies by stimulating demand for renewables technology. What are the changes that are taking place in relation to European FiTs? What is the future of FiTs in the European renewables energy market?

OVERVIEW

•Catalyst

•Summary

INTRODUCTION TO THE FEED-IN TARIFF MECHANISM

•Definition of feed-in tariffs

•Objectives of FiT policies

•The role of FiTs among regulatory policies in Europe

•FiT payment variations

- Payment differentiation option

- Price setting option

- Ancillary design elements option

- Others

TREND ANALYSIS

•Europe's policy experience with solar photovoltaic feed-in tariffs poses unique challenges

- Germany has shifted from a scheduled reduction of tariffs to a market-linked mechanism

- Spain has started to reduce its tariffs

- France has reduced its tariffs and capped annual installation volumes

- Italy has reduced tariffs based on installation capacity along with a cap on annual installation volume

- Czech Republic has reduced its tariffs by half

- The UK has reduced tariffs by half, but is protecting the interests of existing operators

- Support for solar PV in Denmark, Austria, and Greece remains unchanged

- Economic uncertainty is stifling the solar PV market in Portugal

•Implementation challenges

- Determining payment (tariff) levels

•Renewable power developer guide to FiT

OUTLOOK

•Economic conditions to moderate policy support for FiTs across Europe

•Potential for building FiT co-operation mechanisms with other non-member states

•Flexibility in FiT payment options will sustain interest in the renewables market

APPENDIX

•Glossary

•Methodology

•Ask the analyst

•Disclaimer

TABLES

•Table: European renewable energy regulatory policies, 2011

•Table: EU27: role of FiT mechanism per fuel type, 2011

•Table: EU27: GDP rate (%), 2006–12e

FIGURES

•Figure: The fixed-price FiT model

•Figure: The non-variable premium-price FiT model

•Figure: Germany: solar PV installed capacity vs average solar PV FiT rate, 2005–10

•Figure: Spain: solar PV installed capacity (MW), 2005–10

Companies mentioned

Hutchison 3G UK Limited

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