Sentences with phrase «generous public subsidies»

Community support is vital for the wind industry as they can not profitably survive in any country in which they operate without continued generous public subsidies.

Since 2000 Germany's solar industry has enjoyed generous public subsidies that have transformed it into the world's largest solar market.

Not exact matches

But even with generous subsidies, public acceptance foundered, says Søren Hermansen, who runs the island's affiliated energy and environment office.

Yet as Dr Phillips notes, instead of protecting the public, governments are actually complicit by encouraging wind farm development via generous subsidies.

Politicians here have committed to 80 percent renewable power by 2050, and strong public support and generous subsidies have seen solar and wind power grow dramatically in the past decade.