Canada - Certain Measures Affecting the Renewable Energy Generation Sector; Canada - Measures Relating to the Feed-In Tariff Program (WT/DS412/AB/R; WT/DS426/AB/R), Appellate Body Reports issued on 6 May 2013, adopted on 24 May 2013

[1.3] "The FIT [feed-in tariff] Programme is a scheme implemented by the Government of the Province of Ontario and its agencies in 2009, through which generators of electricity produced from certain forms of renewable energy [wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) electricity generation projects] are paid a guaranteed price per kilowatt hour (kWh) of electricity delivered into the Ontario electricity system under 20-year or 40 year contracts." [...] | [...] [4.20] "An entity that enters into a FIT or microFIT Contract is required to, inter alia, build, operate, and maintain the approved generation facility in accordance with all relevant laws and regulations, and deliver the electricity produced into the Ontario electricity system. In return for performing these and other contractual obligations, such entity will be remunerated, over the term of the particular contract, in accordance with a formula that is based on a standard "Contract Price" established by the OPA [Ontario Power Authority]. [...]" | [4.21] "In addition to these obligations, the FIT Programme imposes "Minimum Required Domestic Content Levels" that must be satisfied in the development and construction of solar PV electricity generation facilities participating in both streams of the FIT Programme and of windpower electricity generation facilities taking part in the FIT stream. [...]."