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Canada’s Largest Solar Rooftop, Case Study Part Four
The final part of this case study on Canada’s largest solar rooftop focuses on the Ontario Feed-In Tariff program application. We look at how LoyaltyOne got their FIT program approval to become the first system to feed the Ontario power grid. The Feed-In Tariff application for LoyaltyOne’s pioneering renewable energy system was...[read more]
Policies Can Work in Strange Ways
Whether the policy domain is global climate change or local hazardous waste, it’s exceptionally important to understand the interaction between public policies and technological change in order to assess the effects of laws and regulations on environmental performance. Several years ago, my colleagues Â- Professor Lori Bennear of...[read more]
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“"....and introduce real competition into a fuel market ...."What prevents someone from creating and selling a competitive fuel for less?Does someone need to grant permission to do so? Is not the ability to make a lot of money by creating such a fuel not adequate in itself?And are you serioulsy suggesting there are enough arable acres of ground in the US to grow all the fuel industry ...”
“It is a false argument to compare to the USA experience: their reductions are caused by the switch to gas thanks to the present abundance of shale gas.Regarding the ETS: Don't blame the hammer for being a bad screwdriver! The ETS is doing exactly what you can expect from a cap-and-trade program. It decreases carbon emission following exactly the planned trajectory, for the lowest costs possible ...”