{"id":12057,"date":"2024-04-11T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T00:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rts-pv-wp.grgr.link\/en\/?post_type=blogs&#038;p=12057"},"modified":"2024-09-20T14:31:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T05:31:32","slug":"balancing-cost-under-fit","status":"publish","type":"blogs","link":"https:\/\/rts-pv-wp.grgr.link\/en\/blogs\/12057\/","title":{"rendered":"Balancing Cost under FIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background: #f6f6f6;padding: 16px 24px;margin-bottom: 1em\">\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"text-align: center\">\n<div class=\"large-8 small-12\">\n<h6 style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\">Japan Solar Update: No.91 (Apr 8 ~ 12, 2024)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<h6 class=\"large-4 small-12\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rts-pv-wp.grgr.link\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/03\/balancing-cost.jpg\" alt=\"Forecasting PV installation capacity in Japan\" width=\"300\" height=\"66\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11928\" \/><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background: #f5deb3;padding: 10px;border: 2px#3399cc;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em\">&lt;Key points&gt;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Procurement Price Calculation Committee completed discussions and presented the proposal for the balancing cost under the Feed-in Premium (FIP) program<\/li>\n<li>The balancing cost to be granted is set at 1.0 yen\/kWh (0.00667 cents\/kWh) in the first year of operation, and the amount of annual reduction is set to be uniform for each year up to the fourth year<\/li>\n<li>For PV generation, this scheme is applied to the projects that will start operation under the FIP program between FY 2024 and FY 2026<\/li>\n<li>The committee agreed on the contents of the secretariat&#8217;s proposal and plan to proceed with preparations for implementation of the proposal from FY 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"background: #ffdab9;padding: 10px;width: 50%;height: 70px;border-radius: 10px;border: solid 1px #ffa500;float: left;margin: 15px\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Balancing cost under the FIP program (proposal)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>The Procurement Price Calculation Committee completed discussions<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<table border=\"2\" width=\"90%\" bgcolor=\"e0ffff\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Current scheme<\/strong><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#ffdab9\" style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Secretariat\u2019s proposal<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<td><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">In FY 2022, 1.0 yen\/kWh (0.00667 cents\/kWh)<\/span> will be granted <span style=\"color: #3366ff\">as a balancing cost.<\/span> Then, it will be reduced by 0.05 yen\/kWh annually until the third year, and by 0.1 yen\/kWh (0.00067 cents\/kWh) from the fourth year onwards. and so on<\/td>\n<td>The balancing cost for <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">the first year of operation<\/span> under the FIP system will be<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"> 1.0 yen\/kWh (0.00667 cents\/kWh). Then, it will be set<\/span> so that the amount of reduction in each year from the first year to the fourth year is uniform. and so on<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"background: #ffffff;padding: 18px;width: 20%;height: 70px;border-radius: 1px;border: solid 3px #ffa500;float: left;margin: 10px\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Eligible projects<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">PV:<\/span> Projects which <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">start operation between FY 2024 and FY 2026 under the FIP program*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em\">Wind: Projects which start operation between FY 2024 and FY 2027 under the FIP program*<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background: #ffffff;padding: 10px;width: 10%;height: 40px;border-radius: 1px;border: solid 1px #ffffff;float: left;margin: 10px\"><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">*<\/span>Including projects which shift from the FIT program to the FIP program<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"background: #ffffff;padding: 10px;width: 95%;border: 1px solid #ffa500;text-align: left\">Comparison between the current scheme and the Secretariat\u2019s proposal (If commissioned in FY 2024)<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rts-pv-wp.grgr.link\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/03\/balancing-cost-300x132.jpg\" alt=\"balancing cost\" width=\"1398\" height=\"615\" class=\"wp-image-12061 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rts-pv-wp.grgr.link\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/03\/balancing-cost-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rts-pv-wp.grgr.link\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/03\/balancing-cost-768x339.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rts-pv-wp.grgr.link\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/03\/balancing-cost.jpg 979w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1398px) 100vw, 1398px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>&#8211; If commissioned in FY 2025: <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">1.0 yen\/kWh is granted in FY 2025,<\/span> which will be reduced to 0.83 yen\/kWh in FY 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> &#8211; If commissioned in FY 2026:<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"> 1.0 yen\/kWh is granted in FY 2025,<\/span> which will be reduced to 0.80 yen\/kWh in FY 2027<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"background: #ffffff;padding: 10px;width: 20%;height: 50px;float: left;margin: 15px\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Chairperson Yamauchi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background: #ffdab9;padding: 18 px;border-radius: 10px;height: 60 px;border: 1px solid #db7093;float: left;margin: 18px\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The Procurement Price Calculation Committee completed discussions<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Figure 1 Details of the balancing cost under the Feed-in Premium (FIP) program<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Source: Materials from the 59th meeting of the Subcommittee for Large-volume Introduction of Renewable Energy and <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Next Generation Electricity Network (February 7, 2024), compiled by RTS Corporation<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12061,"template":"","blogs_category":[44],"class_list":["post-12057","blogs","type-blogs","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","blogs_category-regulations-government-initiatives"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Balancing Cost under FIT | RTS Corporation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Based upon over 40 years of our experiences and accumulated knowledge in PV,RTS Corporation has been providing in RTS Corporation is a leading PV industry \/ market consultingcompany and 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