Sentences with phrase «subsidies for renewables like»

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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.

These include ending subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, boosting energy efficiency, advancing renewable sources like wind and solar power and moving away from the idea that «drill baby, drill» is a solution.

But if the main effort to cut emissions is through subsidies for chic renewables like wind and solar power, virtually no good will be achieved — at very high cost.

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.

To pay for the renewable incentives, the House bill is expected to repeal about $ 21 billion in tax subsidies extended to big oil and gas producers like Exxon Mobil Corp, ConocoPhillips and Chevron Corp..

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.

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.

Some would like to see these subsidies end, but I'd say that fossil fuel subsidies should be cut first; that would save more money, and be fairer since they've been around for decades while renewable energy is still a relatively small industry.

Hence, if you want to change directions, you have to influence the politics — you have to work to prevent the Koch Brothers from destroying California renewable energy initiatives, you have to work to eliminate federal subsidies and liability caps for fossil fuel projects (which would mean that oil drillers would have to post $ 10 billion bonds for every deepwater project they initiated), and — for academic scientists — you have to lobby your academic administrators to cut their ties with shady fossil fuel interests like BP and Exxon, and work to open renewable energy research institutes at America's leading universities.

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?

He also wants Trump to level the playing field by eliminating subsidies for renewable energy sources like solar and wind.

After all, if these renewables were cost - competitive, there would be no need for RPSs or subsidies like the wind Production Tax Credit (PTC).