Sentences with phrase «government subsidies for renewable»

The company also receives government subsidies for renewable energy and is seeking Clean Development Mechanism benefits.

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• 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

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

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).

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.

Costs are expected to at least double over the next five in order to provide a subsidy for renewables and create this level playing field the Government seeks.

The government is set to unveil its long - awaited energy plan that would scrap subsidies for renewables and impose obligations on power companies to source a certain proportion of «reliable» supply.

In Britain the Government has announced an end to some important subsidies for renewables.

Most, if not all, of the renewable energy sources GLREA supports require government subsidies, mandates or both for their survival.

EPI can be assumed to be an extension of what is known as the Checks & Balances Project (CB&P)-- which was founded to investigate organizations and policymakers that do not support government programs and subsidies for renewable energy.

Instead, Newsom pointed to government subsidies for other renewables and said he expects utilities, such as the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. — which signed the first U.S. commercial wave - energy contract with Finavera in December — and taxpayers to help foot the bill.

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 government of Spain, a world leader in renewable energy, said it plans to cut subsidies for photovoltaic solar plants by up to 45 percent as it seeks to slash spending amid the economic crisis.

So what we are really saying as scientists and technologists is that, how can we expect to have all the technological solutions in place — every single component — when there simply isn't a market demand for it; when the government is funding subsidies 10 to 1 in terms of fossil fuels to renewables.

Offshore wind is one of the few profitable options left in the market, after the British government cut subsidies for other renewable energies.

END green central planning and the massive government subsidies for unreliables and see just how quickly the renewables sector comes crashing down to earth...

Ohio's two nuclear plants could soon be forced to close due to their exclusion from government and corporate subsidies for solar and wind, including Amazon's policy, which is using Ohio's renewable energy credits to meet its goal.

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.

The current government has sharply curtailed subsidies for renewable energy and now relies more on market forces to determine the generation mix.

But while the figure for fossil - fuel consumption subsidies may be coming down, it remains much higher than estimated government support to renewable energy: subsidies for renewables in power generation amounted to $ 140 billion in 2016.

With its unique resource base, New Zealand is a success story for the development of renewable energy, notably hydro and geothermal, without government subsidies.

But most big countries have various incentives for renewable energy or solar specifically, making it hard to know who's really getting more help (and if one country is getting a lot more help than others, by buying their products you are getting a subsidy from their government, so that's not bad either).

Brian has already made the case for why feed - in tariffs rule in promoting clean energy, and while the UK government's stinging u-turn remains a case study in how not to do them, Germany's more measured reduction in solar subsidies shows, Feed in Tariffs (FiTs) are widely regarded as the most effective policy measure for promoting renewables that we have available to us.

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.

The new setback law is especially frustrating to Poland's wind industry because the prior government had finally agreed to a plan that would have shifted more subsidies for the country's renewable investments into wind energy.

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.

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.