TVA Green Power Switch Generation Partners program
http://www.tva.gov/greenpowerswitch/partners/index.htm
is a pilot program purchasing pv or wind generated power from
homeowners at 15cents/kWh - about twice the retail rate.
Guaranteed buy-back rate subsidies have serious advantages over
installation subsidies. The systems have to keep working well in order
to earn the subsidy. Currently, Sheffield Utilities is the only Alabama
Utility participating in this program.