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Under the initiative, unveiled in Beresford, 75 megawatts of power from the province's energy portfolio — enough to power up to 15,000 homes — will be reserved for renewable community energy projects, such as wind farms and small hydro dams.
Selected projects will receive 10 cents/ kWh hour for the renewable energy they produce.
But the environmental group contends that's not enough to start new projects.
"They've set their feed-in tariff — the price they'll pay for electricity — below the cost of producing that electricity," said spokesman David Coon.
"So it's not going to drive the development of any community-based renewable energy," he said.
The feed-in tariff will be frozen for the first five years and then escalate with the Consumer Price Index, the province has said.
The community energy policy also drew criticism from Yves Gagnon, one of the people hired to advise the government on community energy during the past three years of consultations.
He said some of his recommendations were adopted, but other crucial elements were left out, such as providing financial and technical support to communities that want to develop a community energy program.
The province plans to hold 11 workshops across the province to educate interested communities about the policy between March 8 and 24.
A request for proposals is scheduled to go out by the end of May. Projects may be based on biomass resources, wind, solar, small hydro or tidal power.
Premier Shawn Graham has said the policy will will help build the energy hub, meet climate change action plan objectives and build expertise in renewable energy in communities across New Brunswick.
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