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David Toke, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Policy, University of Birmingham

Renewable energy in the UK - from green certificates to feed-in tariffs? - outcomes and explanations. David Toke, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Policy, University of Birmingham. Alternative title. Never believe your own propaganda!.

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David Toke, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Policy, University of Birmingham

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  1. Renewable energy in the UK - from green certificates to feed-in tariffs? - outcomes and explanations David Toke, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Policy, University of Birmingham

  2. Alternative title Never believe your own propaganda!

  3. Contribution of different technologies to renewables production in 2006-2007 (source: Ofgem 2008)

  4. What happened under NFFO? ‘NFFO rounds were intermittent and led to highly speculative bidding to ensure gaining a contract almost regardless of economic viability. People made low bids in the hope of being able to sell a contract later, something that was especially apparent in the later NFFO rounds’ (Martin Alder interview 07/07/06).

  5. Senior renewable civil servant ‘It (the REFIT option) was not included as an option because it did not fit with the market competition ethos of the government. In most REFIT schemes the prices that were to be received were defined by some part of the government mechanism. That was one of the aspects of a support scheme that the British government was anxious to avoid. They wanted the prices to be set by the market and not decided by the government machine itself.’ (interview 30/01/08)

  6. Secretary of State for Trade and Industry before RO launch: ‘We believe that a banded Obligation would segment the market unnecessarily, and would lead to Government dictating the relative importance of each technology. We also feel that it is no longer Government’s job to pick winners or to introduce artificial distortions into the marketplace. As I announced in August, the future role of DTI will be one of action but not direct intervention’ (DTI2000b, 3).

  7. What about banding? • Renewable industry interests wanted banding • Electricity suppliers with big wind interests wanted no banding • Government ideology rejected banding • RO is a least cost renewable regime, not an innovation framework

  8. Renewable banding in 2008 reform Source: Adapted from DBERR (2008c), untitled Table page 9

  9. History repeated? • Four year gap between end of NFFO and start of RO (2002) • Competitive tendering system for large scale renewables that leads to few projects • How much generation will feed-in tariff for small renewables produce?

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