Why Not Ohio? Huge Response to Ontario's Feed-in Tariff
This is the type of government invlivement that is needed to make a successful committment to renewable energy programs and to get them off the ground in Ohio. This type of program in Ohio would help people save money and begin the drive to a cleaner and greener Ohio in terms of renewable energies.
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by Paul Gipe
According to the report, Ontario's new feed-in tariff program got off to an attention-grabbing start December 16, 2009 when the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) announced that it had awarded 700 contracts for renewable energy to homeowners under its expedited microFIT program.
Altogether, OPA received 8,000 MW of applications for wind and solar energy contracts under the province's precedent-setting, feed-in tariff policy.
Ontario is acting independently of Canada's federal government and plans to close all its coal-fired power plants by 2014. The province, Canada's most populous, is also aggressively developing its renewal energy resources.