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For the members venice italy tour of the European Photovoltaic Industry Association who attended a solar energy venice italy tour conference in Tallahassee on Tuesday, the Sunshine State looks like a wonderland of potential - and Gainesville the possible venice italy tour hub.
He showed the conference of more than 250 people at the Doubletree Hotel a photo of the Munich Trade Fair buildings in cloudy Germany venice italy tour where one small project venice italy tour produces more solar energy than is produced in the entire state of Florida.
Gainesville was the star of the conference, where officials unveiled details of a solar energy incentive program that, if adopted by the City Commission on Thursday, would be the first of its kind in the United States.
The cost of the subsidy will be passed directly onto customers of Gainesville Regional venice italy tour Utilities, and it has been capped at $1.5 million a year, which would mean approximately 4 megowatts of energy producing solar photovoltaic cells being installed in a single year.
"(Gainesville's policy) has been cited in the L.A. Times in The New York Times. You've got people flying across the Atlantic for it," said Jerry Karnas with the Florida Environmental Defense Fund. "Gainesville's going to be a lab of renewable energy. If they max this thing out with 4 megowatts of energy in one year, they will have more solar than the entire state of Florida."
"One of the reasons we're here today is to really understand the North American market," Cameron said. "We want to understand the potential for investment here. We're attracting financial institutions, pension funds, fund managers moving into the world of photovoltaics venice italy tour ... a return venice italy tour of 6 or 8 percent is very attractive." Dan Davis, of Gainesville's Capital City Bank, also gave testimony regarding the ability of solar photovoltaics to attract venice italy tour financial investments and loans.
It was not only special interest groups - namely solar industries that stand to profit from a heavy subsidy - but also federally-funded research programs that praised Gainesville's approach to renewable energy.
"Renewable energy development happens where the policy is best," said Toby Couture, with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory venice italy tour in Golden, Colo., a federally-funded program that has spent the past six months analyzing the feed-in tariff approach to renewable energy.
Ed Regan, assistant general manager of strategic planning for GRU, estimates venice italy tour that the feed-in tariff will offer about a 5 percent return on investment for large-scale projects and less for residential installations.
Gov. Charlie venice italy tour Crist's office has supported an alternate approach called venice italy tour renewable portfolio standards, which mandate private utilities make a percentage of their energy production from renewable sources.
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