Sentences with phrase «subsidies for the renewable industry»

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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.

Stop hiding behind the façade that an arms trade treaty will make a difference; stop promoting arms sales to dictators; and transfer the support and subsidy enjoyed by the military companies to growing industries, such as the quest for renewable energy.

The Renewable Energy Association (REA), which lobbies for more low - carbon power, said government infighting over subsidies was causing deep uncertainty in the industry.

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).

It is unclear to me how oil subsidies and lack of tax breaks for an upstart renewable energy industry will help further these goals.

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.

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.

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.

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.

«Elected officials and public agencies must put communities and the environment first, starting with removing special exemptions and subsidies for the oil and gas industry, while ushering in clean, renewable energy.»

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.

This is an interesting discussion: subsidies for renewables versus carbon tax versus (my personal preference) upstream regulation of the fossil fuel industry to drive the development of carbon capture.

If you are going to subsidise at all then wouldn't direct subsidies to clean renewable power industries for example be more honest and logical?

He objects to subsidies for renewables, but apparently not to those that are given to the fossil fuel industry.

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.

The U.K. paid the equivalent of $ 1.2 billion in renewable energy subsidies for bioenergy in 2015, the Partnership for Policy Integrity said, and the industry is expected to grow significantly in the future.

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.

Increase investment in energy efficiency, renewables and carbon capture and storage technologies while eliminating subsidies for fossil - fuel industries.

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.

The new setback law is especially frustrating to Poland's wind industry because the prior government had finally agreed to a plan that would have shifted more subsidies for the country's renewable investments into wind energy.

Much of the renewable subsidy industry justified in the name of these flawed models causes net grid emissions of CO2 to be much worse for much longer than simply replacing coal with clean low carbon gas and long term inevitable base load zero carbon nuclear on the grid, unsubsidised — but that's only a generation engineering fact from the laws of physics.

Amy acts for a company in the solar industry in this group litigation in which multiple companies claim damages from DECC under the Human Rights Act 1998 arising from DECC's decision to cut subsidies in the renewable energy market.