What's new on Feed-in Tariffs

From Paul Gipe:

What's New on Feed-in Tariffs

• Chris Nelder: Beyond carbon policy: A national feed-in tariff--14-11-12 Climate hawks are hopeful that the U.S. will finally take action on carbon emissions in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy and the President’s acceptance speech comment that “We want our children to live in an America that. . . isn’t threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.” Unfortunately, they’re trotting out the same tired old policy prescriptions that have failed in the past. I think I have a better idea. . . FITs
• Malaysian Star: New quota for FiT programme in Q1 next year--8-11-12 Malaysia will be releasing the new quota for Feed-In-Tariff (FiT) programme in the first quarter of 2013, said Energy, Green Technology and Water Minister Datuk Seri Peter Chin Fah Kui. “We are now in the final stage of setting the degression rates and rationalisation of quotas,” he said at the Asean-India Ministerial Meeting on Co-operation in Renewable Energy. . .
• Now Re-elected, President Obama Should Examine US' Renewable Rank--12-11-12 In his stirring acceptance speech, re-elected President Barack Obama noted that climate change would be on the agenda in his second administration--despite its marked absence during the campaign. Obama then tried to unify a divided country by closing with a popular American rallying cry of how the US "is the greatest nation on earth" and our best days as a nation are yet to come. Considering the resounding defeat of the fossil-fuel industry's propaganda campaign against President Obama, and his new found interest in climate change, just where does the US rank relative to its development of renewable energy? . .