Not exact matches
DICE's
energy sector
provides databases and overviews, which offer a comprehensive insight into European
energy policy measures (taxation,
subsidies, regulation)
for both conventional and
renewable energy sources.
In fact, the bill Obama voted
for raised taxes on oil companies by $ 300 million over 11 years while
providing $ 5.8 billion in
subsidies for renewable energy,
energy efficiency and alternative fuels.
Grameen Shakti,
for example, is a rural - based
renewable energy company in Bangladesh that was able to
provide loans to customers at preferential rates through loan
subsidies provided by the Bangladesh Infrastructure Development Company.
The U.S.
energy legislation of 2005
provides significant
subsidies, not only
for renewable energy sources, but also
for new nuclear power plants.
Moreover, I would suggest that those of us in «the electorate» who are well - informed about this issue are well aware that changes in public policy — including putting a price on carbon pollution, directly regulating GHG emissions, and
providing effective support
for the development and deployment of efficiency and
renewable energy technologies on a scale at least comparable to the
subsidies that fossil fuels have received
for a century — are far more effective than the options that any individual can currently choose, and are in fact crucial to making more such options available to all of us.