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Wind power has used the economic route to be viable

In major wind power producing countries like Denmark and Germany, wind power is promoted through preferential tariffs and a larger incentive is given to wind farms with high plant load factor.
In Denmark, wind power had a fixed preferential feed-in tariff. Today, it is sold there in a liberalized electricity market at competitive rates. In addition to the market price, wind investors get an environmental premium of approximately 0.013

Publication Date: 
14/08/2008
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Climate Mitigation [3], Energy Policy [4], Wind Energy [5], Energy [6], Benefit Sharing [7], India [8]
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