Sentences with phrase «on subsidies for renewable energy»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

«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..

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.

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 cEnergy Reform for supporting renewable - energy subsidies and taking a sizable grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, which focuses in part on addressing climate cenergy subsidies and taking a sizable grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, which focuses in part on addressing climate change.

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.

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.

The Prime Minister is casting doubt on the vast subsidies we pay for «renewable energy».

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.

«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.

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

Regarding the National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs), the European Parliament set for a binding template for the NECPs and added into the template many important details, e.g. on phase out of fossil fuel subsidies, Member State's national trajectories for maintaining and enhancing the carbon removals from sinks as well as trajectories and objectives for energy from renewable sources produced by cities, energy communities and self - consEnergy and Climate Plans (NECPs), the European Parliament set for a binding template for the NECPs and added into the template many important details, e.g. on phase out of fossil fuel subsidies, Member State's national trajectories for maintaining and enhancing the carbon removals from sinks as well as trajectories and objectives for energy from renewable sources produced by cities, energy communities and self - consenergy from renewable sources produced by cities, energy communities and self - consenergy communities and self - consumers.

Conservatively it looks like his Climate Act of 2008, with its targets for carbon emission cuts, will cost us # 300 billion by 2030 in subsidies to renewable energy, in the cost of connecting wind farms to the grid, in VAT, in costs of insulation and new domestic appliances, and in the effect of all this on prices of goods in the shops.

Turning their backs on the Paris Agreement, the ministers opted for a feeble renewable energy target, lax rules for ensuring that all EU countries contribute to the energy transition and massive coal subsidies in the EU's power market.

But as long as the rich nations — and their big polluters — dictate the terms of the Paris accord, maintain unhealthy fossil fuel subsidies and refuse to establish a long - term market for renewable energy that includes putting a price on carbon emissions, a world that protects more vulnerable nations, humans, animals and plants from the impacts of climate change will remain a dream.

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

Recent procurements by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority have given renewable projects state subsidies averaging $ 22 per MWh for 20 years, on top of federal subsidies like the $ 23 per MWh Production Tax Credit.

If that approach can withstand the pressure that Europe's renewable energy industries can bring to bear, it might just encourage a rethinking of the current US pattern of carving out specific subsidies for preferred technologies, while the market rewards other technologies on the basis of their performance.

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.

The institute also opposes regulations on coal, advocates eliminating subsidies for renewable energy, and has fought against the EPA.

Two bills passed by wide margins on Thursday that include sweeping renewable energy goals, enhanced energy efficiency, and subsidies for nuclear power.

Study of the Effects on Employment of Public Aid to Renewable Energy Sources by Gabriel Calzada Álvarez, Raquel Merino Jara, Juan Ramón Rallo Julián, and José Ignacio García Bielsa In this paper, the authors examine Spain's efforts to create «green jobs» through subsidies for renewablRenewable Energy Sources by Gabriel Calzada Álvarez, Raquel Merino Jara, Juan Ramón Rallo Julián, and José Ignacio García Bielsa In this paper, the authors examine Spain's efforts to create «green jobs» through subsidies for renewable eEnergy Sources by Gabriel Calzada Álvarez, Raquel Merino Jara, Juan Ramón Rallo Julián, and José Ignacio García Bielsa In this paper, the authors examine Spain's efforts to create «green jobs» through subsidies for renewablerenewable energyenergy.

Moreover, I would suggest that those of us in «the electorate» who are well - informed about this issue are well aware that changes in public policy — including putting a price on carbon pollution, directly regulating GHG emissions, and providing effective support for the development and deployment of efficiency and renewable energy technologies on a scale at least comparable to the subsidies that fossil fuels have received for a century — are far more effective than the options that any individual can currently choose, and are in fact crucial to making more such options available to all of us.

Justice for the poor can be delivered by funding climate adaptation and mitigation activities in developing nations with at least US$ 160 billion per year, by a commitment to reduce overconsumption, wherever it exists, to equitable, sustainable levels and by eliminating developed countries» subsidies on fossil fuels and shifting them to renewable energy.

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.

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.»