Sentences with phrase «other subsidies for renewable»

• 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

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 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).

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».

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.

According to the IEA, global fossil fuel consumption subsidies are over twice as large as subsidies for renewable energy in 2015, which amounted to $ 150 billion globally — $ 120 billion for non-hydro renewables for power generation and about $ 30 billion for renewables in other sectors, primarily biofuels.

(UNDP) While some people argue that no subsidies are justified, others are promoting temporary subsidies for renewables.

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.

We should remove all the subsidies, regulations and other incentives for renewable energy.

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.

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

On an output basis, these renewable subsidies translated into almost $ 412 per megawatt hour (MWh) for solar technologies, $ 42 per MWh for wind and $ 18 per MWh for all other renewable sources (including hydro).

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.

Renewables employment fell in the European Union for the fourth year running, due to the Eurozone economic crisis and the cutting of subsidies and other support.

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).

In contrast to the $ 500 billion in fossil fuel supports in 2010, renewable energy received just $ 66 billion in subsidies — two thirds for electricity generation from wind, biomass, and other sources, and one third for biofuels.

We have noted for years that wood stoves are hot, but are they green enough to merit subsidies and tax credits like solar panels and other renewable energy technologies?

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.»