Feed-in Tariffs in Australia - Council of Australian Governments

Council of Australian Governments

According to the COAG communiqué released in November 2008 COAG agreed to a set of national principles to apply to new feed-in tariff schemes and to inform the reviews of existing schemes. These principles will promote national consistency of schemes across Australia. According to the Communique the basic principles are:

  1. Micro renewable generation to receive fair and reasonable value for exported energy
  2. Any premium rate to be jurisdictionally determined, transitional and considered for public funding
  3. Ministerial Council for Energy (MCE) to continue to advance fair treatment of small renewables
  4. FiT policy to be consistent with previous COAG agreements (particularly the Australian Energy Market Agreement)

These principles do not appear to support a gross feed in tariff as exists in Germany, but rather a net feed in tariff.

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