Ontario is going with a feed in tariff, the first of its kind in North America - and hyping up its European growth approach. The law is a nice step with around USD$0.09/kWh over 20 years - but why set a project ceiling of 10 MW?
In the end you're going to get alot of developers trying to work around that limit, clustering projects, to leverage economies of scale while tapping the feed in tariff. This is what's happened in France - decent feed in tariff decreasing over time with a 12 MW wind farm size limit. The small size made the sector less attractive for large players until recently when they started clustering projects and lobbying to lift the limit. The current dearth of turbines will make it difficult to get machines for a 10 MW project and the administrative costs of doing multiple 10 MW projects may make the model less attractive. All in good time I suppose.
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