Fance
France has a FIT scheme.
The scheme is primarily based on Article 10 of the Law on the Modernisation of Public Electricity Services (Loi n°2000-108 du 10 février 2000 relative à la modernisation et au développement du service public de l'électricité). Based on this law the Decree on the conditions for purchase of electricity produced by producers benefiting from the obligation of purchase (Décret relatif aux conditions d'achat de l'électricité produite par des producteurs bénéficiant de l'obligation d'achat (Décret n°2001-410 du 10 mai 2001) has been released.
Other important laws include:
Arrêté du 10 juillet 2006 fixant les conditions d’achat de l’électricité produite par les installations utilisant l’énergie mécanique du vent telles que visées au 2o de l’article 2 du décret no 2000-1196 du 6 décembre 2000
Summary
The primary promotion instrument is a price regulation in terms of a feed-in tariff. Operators of plants generating renewable electricity are contractually entitled against the distribution grid operator to the payment of electricity fed in. The grid operator is obliged to enter into a contract on the purchase of electricity at a statutorily set price.
Technologies promoted through the feed-in tariff are specified in Décret n°2000-1196 (Art. 2). The provisions of the Décret are particularised by decrees (arrêtés) on the individual technologies. It applies to electricity produced from PV, hydro, biomass, sewage and landfill gas, municipal solid waste, geothermal, on- and off-shore wind, and CHP. The tariffs are based on the type of technology used and, in one instance, also on the region where the technology is located. They vary between 0.028 €/kWh for onshore wind and 0.3 €/kWh for solar.
According to the decrees on the feed-in tariffs for the single technologies are guaranteed for 15 (onshore wind, geothermal power, biogas, biomass) and 20 years (offshore wind, solar, hydropower).
A special feed-in tariff may be awarded under tenders for the construction of systems that generate electricity from renewable sources, if the production capacities do not satisfy the objectives. The Ministry in charge issues tenders for the installation of systems that generate renewable-energy-sourced electricity at irregular intervals.
EC review and assessment
Read a summary of the European Commission’s 2005 review of France's renewable electricity policies and of its 2007 assessment of France's progress in meeting the target set out in Directive 2001/77/EC.
Legal analysis
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More information
"France - Renewable Energy Fact Sheet" http://ec.europa.eu/energy/energy_policy/doc/factsheets/renewables/renewables_fr_en.pdf.
Paul Gipe, "France Implements New Renewable Tariffs for Solar, Wind, and Biogas" http://www.wind-works.org/FeedLaws/France/FranceImplementsNewRenewableTariffsforSolarWindandBiogas.html.
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