Sentences with phrase «in subsidies for renewable»

Compare that to IEA's estimate of $ 88 billion in subsidies for renewable energy in 2011.

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.

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.

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.

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.

[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.

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 gaIn 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 gain 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?.

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 technologieIn 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 technologiein 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.

But according to an article in Germany's leading news magazine, Der Spiegel, the country is facing a massive budget shortfall for renewable projects, and is now planning to cancel some key subsidies aimed at increasing reliance on Green power.

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.

They are also determined to become the world's leading producer of renewable energy (Even though Germany and the US are currently trying to sue China in the WTO for giving subsidies to renewable energy industries.

For instance, public investments that enhance energy efficiency or that promote switching to renewable fuels would help buffer consumers from fluctuations in future fuel costs while also driving deeper greenhouse gas reductions than subsidy removal alone.

McGuinty ceded that his proposals to implement renewables were poorly planned and managed; renewable projects were taken over by deep pocketed oil companies that would foist them on people in notably contentious locations giving wind a bad name, high FITs that did not adjust to market forces over the long term, no comprehensive agreement with neighbours for better power sharing agreements, no power storage strategy, no coordinated conservation or efficiency plan that included distributed generation, CHP, microCHP, automated demand response management, and worst of all there was no options analysis of subsidies to various producers.

Most developed countries supported a text calling for a transition to a green economy that included phasing out fossil fuel subsidies, the use and production of renewable energies, and creating «green» jobs in this new economic model.

Furthermore, if the Administration is confident that renewable energy is affordable, it should be willing to remove the subsidies for all energy sources to see how competitive renewables are in the marketplace.

The main reason for the diversification of energy (with renewables) in the region is the increased demand for power generation and falling subsidies.

Latest news from Europe is that companies providing pumped hydro power in Germany and other countries are trying to sell off or mothball these assets because they are not profitable due to subsidies paid for «renewables».

In addition to mandates, biofuels are boosted by subsidies, most notably the «Production Tax Credit» for renewable energy.

Meanwhile, German households picked up the growing bill for the wholesale subsidies for renewables that German industry enjoys, accounting for 18 percent of the average price that consumers paid for electricity last year — twice as high a proportion as in 2010.

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

«Building one of the first subsidy - free solar projects of this size in Europe is a ground - breaking milestone; both for us as an international renewable energy company and also for the future of the European PV market,» explains Benedikt Ortmann, Managing Director of BayWa r.e. Solar Projects GmbH.

Renewable Energy World For at least the last 40 years, since the oil shocks in the 1970s, dealing with fossil fuel subsidies has been on the international agenda.

Funding these subsidies for renewables and the backups needed for them is producing crippling electricity prices (doubled in the past decade).

Now subsidies for renewable energy are being abandoned, too, in sensible jurisdictions.

Diverting any money to specific mid-stream market sectors (renewable energy for example — though a fan, we should eliminate all such direct subsidies) ignores that the majority of a consumer's carbon footprint is embedded in the products they buy.

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.

Savings from reduced consumer and producer subsidies can be used for large ‐ scale renewables, energy efficiency and public transport systems, and, in developing countries, toward the rural poor, through for instance cleaner cooking and lighting such as distributed renewables and clean cook stoves.

Up to 2011 (adjusted for inflation), the oil and gas industry received $ 446.96 billion in cumulative energy subsidies from 1994 to 2009, whereas renewable energy sources received just $ 5.93 billion.

Research institute Verso Economics reveals that for every «green job» created by taxpayer subsidy, 3.7 jobs are killed in the real economy and that, thanks to the artificial rise in energy prices caused by renewable subsidies, at least 50,000 people a year in Britain alone are driven into fuel poverty.