99 04 RENEWABLES 2015 GLOBAL STATUS REPORT COUNTRY REGULATORY POLICIES FISCAL INCENTIVES AND PUBLIC FINANCING Renewableenergy targets Feed-intariff/ premiumpayment Electricutilityquota obligation/RPS Netmetering Biofuelsobligation/ mandate Heatobligation/ mandate TradableREC Tendering Capitalsubsidy, grant,orrebate Investmentor productiontax credits Reductionsinsales, energy,CO2,VAT, orothertaxes Energyproduction payment Publicinvestment, loans,orgrants HIGH INCOME COUNTRIES Andorra Australia * Austria Bahrain Barbados140 Belgium Canada R* Chile Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic R Denmark R R Estonia Finland France R R Germany R Greece R Ireland Israel Italy R R Japan R R Kuwait Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta R Netherlands New Zealand Norway Poland R R Portugal Russia R San Marino Singapore Slovakia Slovenia R South Korea Spain141 R Sweden Switzerland R Trinidad and Tobago United Arab Emirates R* United Kingdom United States3 R* R* R* R* R Uruguay TABLE 3. RENEWABLE ENERGY SUPPORT POLICIES 1 Certain Caribbean countries have adopted hybrid net metering and feed-in policies whereby residential consumers can offset power, while commercial consumers are obligated to feed 100% of the power generated into the grid. These policies are defined as net metering for the purposes of the Global Status Report. 2 Spain removed FIT support for new projects in 2012. Incentives for projects that previously had qualified for FIT support continue to be revised. 3 State-level targets in the United States include RPS policies. – existing national (could also include state/provincial), – existing state/provincial (but no national), – new (* indicates state/provincial), R – revised (* indicates state/provincial), 5 – removed/expired