Sentences with phrase «of subsidies for renewable»

In its report the IPCC emphasises the futility of subsidies for renewable energy parallel to an emissions trading system: «The addition of a CO2 reduction policy to a second policy does not necessarily lead to greater CO2 reductions,» it says in a literal translation of the IPCC's Technical Summary: «In an emissions trading scheme with a sufficiently stringent cap other measures such as subsidising renewable energy have no further influence on total CO2 emissions.»

This week's Australian budget, with its withdrawal of subsidies for renewable energy, has left many commentators wondering if we've turned our back on carbon - neutral power.

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.

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.

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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[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.

«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.

«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.

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..

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

«The resolution as it passed it would apply not only to all vehicle types but it would also apply to subsidies and mandates of all fuel types, so that would include, for example, the renewable fuel standard,» Ebell, who chaired President Trump's EPA transition team, said.

The subsidies set aside for renewable energies are forcing consumers to pay higher rates — a sort of invisible tax.

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.

The «market conditions» that these ethanol producers are referring to is the fact that the average price of ethanol has dropped some 30 percent since May, as market subsidies combined with a lack of infrastructure for its delivery and use have created a surplus of the renewable fuel.

«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.

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.

«Yet the report stops short of making the most obvious recommendations to address this challenge, eliminating the subsidies and forcing renewable energy generators to pay for the costs they impose on the grid because of their intermittency and unreliability.

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.

Lomborg appeared on an episode of John Stossel's «Green Tyranny» where he criticized subsidies for renewable energy: [87]

Variety of tax and subsidy connections Tax credits for investments in new (risky) technologies Feed - in tariffs for renewable energy Carbon pricing Insurance

Congressman Dave Camp (R - MI), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, introduced a tax reform bill earlier this week that removed all subsidies for oil, gas, coal, renewables and other energy technologies.

«Germany has set up a system of legislation and subsidies to move away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy,» Martin Kaiser, executive director of programs for Greenpeace International in Berlin, told me.

In order to stay online, these reliable plants may require one or all of the following options for remedy: 1) further economic support to make up for losses in energy markets, 2) a new revenue stream from capacity markets, or 3) immediate termination of subsidies and mandates for renewables.

Favorable policies such as exemption in wheeling and banking charges, cross subsidies, and access to withdraw banked green power anytime during the 24 hours of business operations should be translated across all states to enable larger adoption of renewable energy for big corporates.

By masking the true cost of nuclear power, subsidies also allow the industry to exaggerate its economic competitiveness; consequently, they diminish or delay support for more economical and less risky alternatives like energy efficiency and renewable energy.

However, in 2011, an additional subsidy was added in the form of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), to incentivise its use for heat as well.

The other point about renewable subsidies, at least for solar, is that subsidies are provided directly to consumers in the form of tax credits to install and use solar panels.