Comments on Bioenergy Power Generation under the FiT scheme
Ensure Fuel Sustainability and Proper Generation Technologies
The Procurement Price Calculation Committee identified at its meetings in FY2017 that the sharp increase of bioenergy power generation could cause a problem for the sustainability of fuel. Discussions are under way to make revisions to the FiT scheme so that sustainability of fuel can be secured.
Aiming at further improvement of the revision, Renewable Energy Institute presents its comments on the on-going discussions:
View original report in Japanese (Published in December 2017)
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