Sentences with phrase «energy subsidies only»

Thus, the IPCC now confirms what the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Economics, the Monopolies Commission or the President of the Ifo Institute, Hans - Werner Sinn, have been saying for years: Under the fixed cap of European emissions trading with its precisely calculated amount of pollution rights renewable energy subsidies only lead to a shift of CO2 emissions, but not to their reduction.

Not exact matches

A report by the Commons» energy and climate change committee published today warns that government proposals will effectively provide subsidies to nuclear generators - despite the coalition agreement only permitted new nuclear power stations «provided they receive no public subsidy».

This has the industry scratching its head and alongside the UK's volte - face on solar subsidy, not to mention yesterday's stirring declaration on cutting green energy costs, can only have one effect: to confirm, once again, that the UK is signed up but not altogether committed.

The nation's feed - in tariffs guarantee 25 years of up to triple the market price for solar energy, making it the world's hottest solar market, trailing only subsidy - richer Germany as well as the U.S. with its historical lead in developing solar technology.

Obama clearly picked up on bipartisan interest in eliminating distorting energy subsidies, but sadly targeted only oil subsidies in seeking the billions he wants for research and innovation.

This ignorance leads to radio ads decrying NIMBYism as the only reason for disallowing offshore drilling, even while these rich landowners still don't allow any wind / solar where they can see, make up all sorts of lies about wind / solar, while bush refuses to give equal subsidies to «alternative» energy and refuses to tax windfall profits to oil companies, who break records year after year in profits...

In my view (and I've seen energy and environment close up in every election since Pres. Nixon's rather revolutionary Environmental Message of the early 1970s == too bad there was that third rate break in to spoil his record) the tests for all the candidates will be whether they will substiture oil taxes for off - oil subsidies, carbon taxes to level the whole field, and then and only then decide where we need to push or pull a bit (like with the fuel economy standards, long over due, and boy will they take a long time to arrive in full force.)

B. Even after decades of government subsidy and favoritism, alternative energy sources such as solar and wind play only a niche role in U.S. energy supplies.

Of course, that will only be if the world still believes there is a merit in renewable energy and the subsidies it needs to survive.

Developing and transitional governments know that reducing conventional energy subsidies will not only help with these problems, but also help their ability to fund other development objectives.

(Apparently for them the only good energy subsidy is a fossil fuel subsidy.)

The U.S. energy legislation of 2005 provides significant subsidies, not only for renewable energy sources, but also for new nuclear power plants.

But if Obama and others focus first on consumption subsidies the motives look less like fiscal responsibility and a stable climate, and more like a finger pointing exercise or negotiating tactic designed to show that the developing world has plenty of funds available to adapt to climate change and invest in clean energy, if only they would stop making energy affordable for their populations.

Yet corruption keeps the gravy train of subsidies flowing towards that form of energy, which only works for sail boats because they have engines to help when the wind fails.

In 2015, even after decades of heavy government subsidies, solar and wind power provided only 1.8 percent of global energy.

Behind this RICO campaign of climate desperation lies a feeding machine of «Big Green» money: wealthy foundations with climate agendas (Energy Foundation, Soros Foundations, etc), well - funded media operations (InsideClimate News, Media Matters for America, etc), older environmental organizations anxious for a new strategy (Natural Resources Defense Council, Audubon, etc), billionaire newbies (Tom Steyer, Nathaniel Simons, etc), and clean - energy companies looking for long - term government subsidies that could only become available if larger, older organizations can no longer rececive them (Tesla, Solyndra, etc), and acadEnergy Foundation, Soros Foundations, etc), well - funded media operations (InsideClimate News, Media Matters for America, etc), older environmental organizations anxious for a new strategy (Natural Resources Defense Council, Audubon, etc), billionaire newbies (Tom Steyer, Nathaniel Simons, etc), and clean - energy companies looking for long - term government subsidies that could only become available if larger, older organizations can no longer rececive them (Tesla, Solyndra, etc), and acadenergy companies looking for long - term government subsidies that could only become available if larger, older organizations can no longer rececive them (Tesla, Solyndra, etc), and academics.

Only Congress can fund R&D for new technologies or offer subsidies for clean energy.

Christian Kjaer, the head of knowledge at the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena), says New Zealand is the only country he knows of that has removed all government energy subsEnergy Agency (Irena), says New Zealand is the only country he knows of that has removed all government energy subsenergy subsidies.

But that remains a fantasy as long as renewable energy continues to be economically disadvantaged in favor of fossil fuel: In 2013, according to the International Institute for Sustainable Development, consumer subsidies to fossil fuels totaled $ 548 billion, compared to only $ 121 billion for renewables.

LONDON, 31 July, 2017 — Health campaigners say the energy policies of the world's richest countries are inflicting a double burden on their citizens, not only using their taxes to pay fossil fuel subsidies, but also loading huge health costs on them.

«If electricity prices do not rise over the next decade, only a few plants will survive on the market without subsidies,» says an analysis by the Berlin - based consulting firm Energy Brainpool.»

Even with continued heavy subsidies at the federal and state levels, the EIA expects solar energy to grow from 0.1 quad today to only about 0.4 quad by 2035, which is less than 0.5 % of our energy supply 80 years after their invention.

But crucially, even among those who disdain fossils and nukes, there is a seemingly unbridgeable gulf between those who say that solar and wind power have unstoppable momentum and will eventually bring with them lower energy prices and millions of jobs, and those who say these intermittent energy sources are inherently incapable of sustaining modern industrial societies and can make headway only with massive government subsidies.

European powers such as Germany, Spain and Italy plunged into renewable energy development, lending government money and providing subsidies to encourage expansion, at times of strong economic growth - only to find the currently economically inefficient systems draining government coffers and propping up unsustainable industries.

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.

Fourth, do a proper cost / benefit analysis to show how alternate energies only appear to be competitive because of government subsidies.

However, wind and solar power (the only energy sources strongly supported by the Sierra Club) are not currently viable without massive government subsidies.

You have to pinch yourself when the government announces another new subsidy for the fossil fuel industry, not only because they so recently said that renewable energy should stand on its own two feet, but also because they're announcing this just days before the latest climate conference in Paris — at which world leaders will gather to try and hammer out a global deal to reduce emissions.

Removing fossil fuel subsidies would have only a small effect on CO2 emissions and renewable energy use, new research has shown.

Not only do fossil fuel subsidies dwarf those for renewables today, but a long legacy of governments propping up oil, coal, and natural gas has resulted in a very uneven energy playing field.

The fact that «only» 30 % of the capital costs of renewable energy world wide are subsidised is no argument that renewable energy doesn't enjoy huge subsidies.

Health campaigners say the energy policies of the world's richest countries are inflicting a double burden on their citizens, not only using their taxes to pay fossil fuel subsidies, but also loading huge health costs on them.

The certification, which Philips plans to detail at the ENERGY STAR Products Partner Meeting, makes the company's Hue platform one of the first connected lighting systems to qualify not only for ENERGY STAR's badge of approval, but utility subsidies that could make upgrading to smart bulbs considerably cheaper.