More than 120 energy regulators, utilities and policy-makers from 14 African countries have taken part in a Johannesburg workshop on designing and implementing stable, long-term renewable energy (RE) support schemes such feed-in tariffs in an African setting. Feed-in tariffs (FITs) are already used to promote RE in more than 30 countries around the world, and South Africa has also recently introduced a FIT scheme.
A new comprehensive roadmap study outlining out how China can support the small wind power (SWP) industry will be disseminated at a workshop during the China International Wind Energy Exhibition & Symposium (CWEE 2010) in Shanghai next week.
