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The feed-in tariff regulations of Royal Decree 436/2004 have been refined with the recent Royal Decree 661 from 2007. Basic change with respect to RD436 is the decoupling from the market reference price, which increased with oil price increases and automatically increased renewable tariffs with the oil price. A fixed tariff of 0.269375Euro/kWh is granted for CSP plants up to 50MW for 25years, increasing yearly with inflation minus 1 percent point. The CSP target was increased to 500MW by 2010.

A new feed-in tariff for solar electricity was published in Portugal in 2007, granting 0.27 €/kWh for CSP plants up to 10MW and 0.16-0.20 €/kWh for CSP plants beyond 10MW.

A new feed-in tariff for solar electricity was published in France on July 26, 2006, granting 0.30 €/kWh (0.40 €/kWh in overseas) plus extra 0.25 €/kWh if integrated to building (+0.15 €/kWh in overseas). This tariff is limited to solar only installations with less than 12MW capacity and less than 1500hours/year operation. For production over this limit the tariff is 0.05 €/kWh.

Law 3468/2006 Generation Of Electricity Using Renewable Energy Sources And High-Efficiency Cogeneration Of Electricity And Heat And Miscellaneous Provisions (Official Gazette A’ 129) was published in 2006 and grants solar energy exploited in units employing a technology other than that of photovoltaics with an installed capacity up to five (5) MWe 0.25 €/kWh on the main land and 0.27 €/kWh on non-interconnected islands

The Israel Ministry of National Infrastructures, which is responsible for the energy sector, decided in 2002 to introduce to the Israel electricity market CSP as a strategic ingredient, with a minimal power unit of 100 MWe. There is an option to increase the CSP contribution up to 500 MWe at a later stage, after the successful operation of the first unit. A feasibility study about the necessary incentive premiums for CSP in Israel had been completed in 2003 and was evaluated by the Israel Public Utilities Authority (PUA) for the formulation of a feed-in law for CSP and other renewable energy technologies. A site for the first 100MW was identified and approved, providing space for up to 500MW. In 2006, Israeli PUA’s New Feed-in Incentives For Solar-Driven IPPs were published, being valid as from September 3rd, 2006 for a 20 years period. For plants with installed capacity larger than 20 MWe the tariff for the solar part only is app. 16.3 UScents/kWh (Nov.2006). Maximum allowed fossil back-up is 30% of the energy produced in the plant. For smaller plants below 20MW in the range of 100 kW to 20 MW for the first 20 years period the tariff is app. 20.4 UScents /kWhe (Nov.2006)