Feed-in Tariff Decree

Austria

Executive

Decree/Order/Ordinance

Passed in 2011

The Decree determined new feed-in tariffs for renewable electricity, including electricity produced from wind, biomass, biogas, landfill and sewage gas, geothermal and solar. Contracts for wind energy, solar, landfill and sewage gas and geothermal energy last 13 years, while contracts for biomass and biogas last 15 years. The tariff rates fixed under the scheme vary between €0.05/KWh for electricity generated from landfill gas to €0.25/KWh for solar energy.