Sentences with phrase «federal subsidies for renewable»

U.S. federal subsidies for renewable energy, which includes biofuels as well as renewable electricity generation, has declined by 56 percent since 2013, dipping to $ 6.7 billion in 2016.

And here's Grist's Chris Mims: «And unlike federal subsidies for renewables, which are constantly haggled over in spending bills, a lot of these are sneaky.

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Last year, Congress in a show of bipartisan support agreed to extend the federal subsidies responsible for the renewable energy boom through the end of the decade.

I support not giving any federal subsidies or loan guarantees for nuclear energy... they had their chance and wasted it fighting renewable energy companies.

A few US states, particularly California, are doing the same thing, and there are already large subsidies for so - called «renewables» by the Federal Government as well.

The possible components of such an approach that would be relevant in the context of climate change include: a national renewable electricity standard; Federal financing for clean energy projects: energy efficiency measures (building, appliance, and industrial efficiency standards; home retrofit subsidies; and smart grid standards, subsidies, and dynamic pricing policies); and new Federal electricity ‑ transmission siting authority.

Added to the 30 percent federal tax credit, a Louisiana resident can gain a government subsidy for 80 percent of the cost of a renewable energy system.

NRDC has for over 40 years sought to close nuclear plants directly and indirectly by lobbying for laws including federal subsidies and renewable energy mandates that discriminate against nuclear.

Recent procurements by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority have given renewable projects state subsidies averaging $ 22 per MWh for 20 years, on top of federal subsidies like the $ 23 per MWh Production Tax Credit.

Specific subsidies for ethanol and wind power have lapsed, perhaps temporarily, but both still receive valuable preferences in the form of the federal Renewable Fuel Standard and numerous state renewable portfolio sRenewable Fuel Standard and numerous state renewable portfolio srenewable portfolio standards.

Hence, if you want to change directions, you have to influence the politics — you have to work to prevent the Koch Brothers from destroying California renewable energy initiatives, you have to work to eliminate federal subsidies and liability caps for fossil fuel projects (which would mean that oil drillers would have to post $ 10 billion bonds for every deepwater project they initiated), and — for academic scientists — you have to lobby your academic administrators to cut their ties with shady fossil fuel interests like BP and Exxon, and work to open renewable energy research institutes at America's leading universities.

Eliminate federal subsidies for fossil fuels and re-direct those federal funds to renewable energy development and energy efficiency programs.

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.

While there have been a few bids of 2 - 3 cents per kWh for utility - scale renewable power, they include federal renewable energy subsidies that will soon end and do not reflect all of the costs of a renewable energy grid.

For example, the federal Production Tax Credit provides a $ 22 / MWh subsidy to certain renewable technologies, yet the analyses of net metering do not always account for thFor example, the federal Production Tax Credit provides a $ 22 / MWh subsidy to certain renewable technologies, yet the analyses of net metering do not always account for thfor that.

Meanwhile, the federal EV tax credit in the US narrowly survived being cut out of the recent tax bill, and renewable energy (and the subsidies for it) has fresh opposition in the highest levels of the government after the 2016 election.