Sentences with phrase «about subsidies for renewables»
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«At some point, we think this will trigger a political debate about how the grid fees and renewables subsidies should be paid for.
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According to the IEA, global fossil fuel consumption subsidies are over twice as large as subsidies for renewable energy in 2015, which amounted to $ 150 billion globally — $ 120 billion for non-hydro renewables for power generation and about $ 30 billion for renewables in other sectors, primarily biofuels.
The other point about renewable subsidies, at least for solar, is that subsidies are provided directly to consumers in the form of tax credits to install and use solar panels.
To pay for the renewable incentives, the House bill is expected to repeal about $ 21 billion in tax subsidies extended to big oil and gas producers like Exxon Mobil Corp, ConocoPhillips and Chevron Corp..
In the 2014 - 2015 procurement year, ComEd and Ameren paid a subsidy of about 1.15 cents per kwh for Renewable Energy Certificates under the RPS law;
The good news is that renewable energy subsidies for wind, solar, geothermal, hydropower, and non-corn based biofuels and biomass have been growing in recent years, but still only account for about 17 percent of all energy subsidies between 2002 and 2008.
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.
But anyone who argues for the support of renewable energy through subsidies has surely lost the right to complain about subsidies for nuclear.