Ontario solar Industry-unfair competition or encouraging local

World Trade Organization (WTO), in the light of the recent meeting, Ontario's Green Energy Act, which contains the fuelling a solar panel production and installation of the entire province (FIT) feed of tariff quotas for the program came under attack.  Increasing energy costs, can also be carried out under the responsibility of the FIT program, which sets the priority of the goods and services are created report Ontario, shall be submitted to the WTO World Energy Council (TTE) (WEC).

Ontario and Canadian solar Markets case

Ontario's solar industry's critics are THE WTO Director-General, Pascal Lamy and John Krenicki, General Electric Vice-Chairman. they submit that the tariff systems and their participation in the local industry heavy preference to stifle competition, energy prices, and ultimately the "green" energy transformation in the world.

Ontario's FIT program related to the domestic content requirements from the province without the need to prevent the branches of insurance enterprises essentially competing against, and the lack of competition drives up solar panels, and to their fitting.  

Ontario's "protectionist" policies are not completely new to North America-Quebec has established its own system of tariff quotas, and approximately 30 American States have passed the regulations require the completion of the add-ins often focus on local production of renewable energy production.

The ongoing Struggle over Canada is a State-of-the-art solar Market

These most recent criticism of Ontario's FIT program will be delivered in the same program against late last summer, the Japanese in the WTO's challenge to the heels.Few expect the Japanese criticism to go a lot, since the challenge on the basis of the laws do not seem to bind to the provinces and municipalities to Governments.

However, the Government of Canada is in the course of negotiations with the European Union, the large and comprehensive trade agreement, and the critical point of Division is coiled in the provincial administration of tariff quotas for certain products in the case of systems., European procurement policies favouring local industry to be scrapped, and the future of the Canadian Sun repair industry is likely to have all the concessions made by Ottawa.

Ontario solar's Defenders

Although the WTO encourages Governments to liberalize their markets on the basis of solar energy, others who defend the tariff systems in General and Ontario in particular, of the FIT program.

These supporters of the local procurement in Ontario's Energy Minister, Brad Duguid, which indicates the last 7 billion dollars agreement forged Samsung Electronics to build four factories producing solar panels and other devices. this agreement, as well as other international companies looking to enter Ontario's solar industry may lead by directly and indirectly even 35,000 green jobs.

Ontario's Green Energy Act, also pointed out that, in support of Duguid FIT policy complies with the provisions of THE WTO, and that only a part of the procurement must be local.

Further job creation and the promotion of the Sun, the horizon of the market conditions, it is unlikely that the Ontario's FIT program to succumb to pressure in the near future.

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