France Raises Solar Feed-in Tariffs; New York SEIA Calls for FITs

Renewable Energy World: "The French Minister for Energy and the Environment announced last Monday that the government was launching an aggressive new program to propel the country to the forefront of solar energy development.

Borloo said that France intends to become one of the world's leaders in the development of solar photovoltaic technology and will increase the supply of solar-generated electricity 400 times by 2020.

The announcement by Minister Jean-Louis Borloo was made at the annual Grenelle meeting of French environmental stakeholders. Minister Borloo outlined 50 actions the Sarkozy government would take to substantially increase the role of renewable energy in France."