Sentences with phrase «for subsidies for renewables»

Both sides will recognize that a carbon tax, by leveling the competitive playing field, eliminates any need or support for subsidies for renewables.

Not exact matches

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.

At the same time, subsidies and other support for renewable energy projects have boosted competition from wind and solar power and piled pressure on coal - fired and nuclear power plants.

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.

Although the final tax reform policy keeps the subsidies in place, some market analysts have grown concerned that these developments — as well as regulatory hurdles for new wind projects — will prohibit or slow the rate of deployment of renewable energy by utilities in the U.S.

Also in the Post, Terence Corcoran wonders whether Corn Cob Bob — the friendly spokesmascot for the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association — will survive its ongoing battle with the C.D. Howe Institute, which recently released a report questioning the environmental and economic justifications for corn ethanol subsidies.

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 a 184 - page letter to Catholic leaders released Thursday, Francis warns of «unprecedented destruction of ecosystems, with serious consequences for all of us» and recommends renewable fuel subsidies and maximum energy efficiency to combat global warming.

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That hasn't stopped the Conservatives from cutting renewables subsidies for solar PV installations though, so it's possible it will be insufficient to protect wind farms.

[214] He also said that there is a distinction between existing and proposed renewable schemes in that the existing schemes have already been paid for, whereas any new construction requires the promise of subsidy from the consumer.

Ed Davey and the Lib Dems hold renewable energy close to their hearts, so they fought all they could to block Conservatives seeking cuts of 25 % to subsidies for wind farms.

In 2016, Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo directed the New York Public Service Commission to consider ratepayer - financed subsidies similar to those for renewable sources to keep nuclear power stations profitable in the competition against natural gas.

Under Cuomo, the PSC has undertaken an ambitious reimagining of the utility industry, called Reforming the Energy Vision, has backed subsidies for renewable and nuclear energy and has set up a ratepayer - funded program to invest in clean energy technology.

Under Cuomo, the PSC has undertaken an ambitious reimagining of the utility industry, has backed subsidies for renewable and nuclear energy and has set up a ratepayer - funded program to invest in clean energy technology.

Accelerate investment in renewables and end subsidies for any fuel that releases carbon into the air as breathe.

«His weak green light to renewable fuels, refusal to cut fossil fuel subsidies and his call for further imports, completely undermines last year's recognition of the need to end the nation's oil addiction,» she said.

The deal, long in the making after Entergy signaled it would shutter the FitzPatrick plant in 2017, comes after state regulators put the final approval on new subsidies for renewable fuels, including nuclear power, potentially worth millions of dollars.

Stop hiding behind the façade that an arms trade treaty will make a difference; stop promoting arms sales to dictators; and transfer the support and subsidy enjoyed by the military companies to growing industries, such as the quest for renewable energy.

• extending the compensation package for energy intensive users • freezing the Government's Carbon Price Floor mechanism • incentivising combined heat and power • exemptions from other subsidies for renewable electricity

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.

Victoria Ayling, who is standing for election in Grimsby, says she meant to say renewable energy subsidies

#ukip #grimsby When I asked what happens when subsidies for renewable energy run out I am insulted by Lib / Lab / Con / Grn pact but none answered

«The first thing I did was try to get a grip on the spending and what I found was that it took a while for the department to actually give me the numbers of how much has been spent within the Levy Control Framework, which is the subsidy that's available to renewable energy until 2020.

The FitzPatrick announcement comes just more than a week after the state Public Service Commission approved a long - term clean, renewable energy standard that includes subsidies for nuclear power.

Just more than a week after the state Public Service Commission approved a long - term clean, renewable energy standard that includes subsidies for nuclear power, the state on Tuesday touted Exelon's planned acquisition of the FitzPatrick nuclear plant from Entergy Corp..

FITs are subsidies for small - scale renewable electricity generation, paid for by ordinary households through their energy bills.

The bill language also proposes changes to the Internal Revenue Service code that would terminate fossil fuel subsidies, extend renewable electricity production tax credits for wind - generated electricity and permanently extend a business energy investment tax credit for solar or wind energy technologies.

Among her plans of what she'd like to accomplish once elected: Promote / support bills in Congress that adopt clean sources of energy by helping to end the intricate system of public subsidies that keep dirty sources of energy artificially cheap, and promote renewable sources: solar, wind, and hydro; Protect waterways / drinking supply by reducing the risk of contamination and ensure that when contamination is found, the responsible parties are held accountable; Fight for public financing of elections; Work every day to overturn Citizens United.

The Renewable Energy Association (REA), which lobbies for more low - carbon power, said government infighting over subsidies was causing deep uncertainty in the industry.

Continuing the $ 1 - per - gallon subsidy for cellulosic ethanol and the renewable fuel standards will also help.

There's a good article in Slate which lays out a case for shuttling some of the funds spent on subsidies for renewable energy into R&D instead.

The German Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) still encourages such usage until 2019, e.g. by subsidizing the generation of heat from wood energy with feed - in tariffs or by granting investment subsidies for heating installations such as wood pellet or wood chip heating systems.

This means it covers the direct cost of low - carbon subsidies, energy efficiency and carbon taxes, as well as indirect costs due to strengthening grids, backing up intermittent renewables, compensating conventional generation for lost revenue through the capacity market and savings due to the merit - order effect, which pushes down wholesale electricity prices.

The higher figures of $ 4 billion might have come from including R&D funding for renewables and hydrogen and / or subsidies for adoption of cleaner options (relevant for climate but not research on climate).

The coming years could see big trouble for renewable power, which has become overly dependent on subsidies, and a surprising rise in nuclear power.

Fossil fuel interests are using their clout at the White House and in Congress to sabotage every renewable energy program that comes along, while make sure massive government subsidies, on the order of $ 100 billion a year when you count it all up, continue to flow to the fossil fuel industry (U.S. military expenditures are $ 500 billion a year, and good chunk of that is devoted to protecting overseas oilfields, for example).

Setting aside the fact that in many cases clean energy competes on its own merits — for instance in the case of well ‐ situated wind farms and Brazilian sugarcane ethanol — this analysis shows that the global direct subsidy for fossil fuels is around ten times the subsidy for renewables.

Fortunately, the relative added costs of today's renewable technologies are quite reasonable, especially if one factors in the subsidies that exist for fossil fuels and if we price carbon commensurate with the costs of its environmental damage.

It is unclear to me how oil subsidies and lack of tax breaks for an upstart renewable energy industry will help further these goals.

Postscript, 5:25 p.m. ** Via Twitter, I was pointed to a Heritage Foundation blog post by Joel Griffith criticizing Young Conservatives for Energy Reform for supporting renewable - energy subsidies and taking a sizable grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, which focuses in part on addressing climate change.

Renewables increase from 13 % of the mix today to 18 % in 2035; the growth in renewables is underpinned by subsidies that rise from $ 64 billion in 2010 to $ 250 billion in 2035, support that in some cases can not be taken for granted in this age of fiscal Renewables increase from 13 % of the mix today to 18 % in 2035; the growth in renewables is underpinned by subsidies that rise from $ 64 billion in 2010 to $ 250 billion in 2035, support that in some cases can not be taken for granted in this age of fiscal renewables is underpinned by subsidies that rise from $ 64 billion in 2010 to $ 250 billion in 2035, support that in some cases can not be taken for granted in this age of fiscal austerity.

These include ending subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, boosting energy efficiency, advancing renewable sources like wind and solar power and moving away from the idea that «drill baby, drill» is a solution.

In the real world, your advocacy translates both into supporting specific policies (i.e., existing energy policies) and being against other specific policies (i.e., subsidies for renewables).

Options and Instruments for a Deep Cut in CO2 emissions: Carbon dioxide capture or renewables, taxes or subsidies?.

Reports estimate that the average German household currently pays $ 180 ($ 242) per year to subsidize renewable energy, highlighting that no upper limit on Germany's subsidies for renewables has been set.

But according to James Rust of the Heartland Institute, subsidies for solar are just the tip of the expensive renewables iceberg...

There will be some concern that renewable energy subsidies have now indirectly spawned additional support for coal and gas, and that both will raise European energy prices which are already some of the highest in the world.

In a compelling article in the Washington Monthly, «Get the Energy Sector Off the Dole,» Jeffrey Leonard suggests that eliminating all government energy subsidies and tax credits for non-renewable and renewable energy sources will level the playing field and allow the free market to drive new energy technologies.

The European Commission has given limited backing for gas and coal power subsidies, which will boost conventional utilities caught out by a surge in renewable power, but may undermine carbon cuts.