Sentences with phrase «subsidise solar»

So in spite of the civil servants advising ministers, «no, we shouldn't subsidise solar», we ended up having this policy.

Look at the unbelievedly stupid results of subsidising solar installations in Aus (excused as unintended consequences, of course).

At present they are being used inappropriately as in the UK where heavily subsidised solar farms are inappropriate in our cloudy country

The low prices have been caused by a glut in RECs issued to households that have taken advantage of government - subsidised solar - panel installations.

It puts the figures in perspective by looking at the limit position, the paper highlights the very high costs imposed by mandating and subsidising solar power.

I have income indirectly from unsubsidised coal, and have refused income from subsidised solar and wind power» (Emphasis added).

Perhaps one of the most heavily subsidised industries in Europe's history, which had virtually no market before government intervention, complained to the EC that China was subsidising its solar panel manufacturers.

Not exact matches

But not only has Caroline Flint opposed a sensible move to limit solar - subsidising, Labour has opposed such moves in the past.

«Off - grid solar panels seemed the perfect solution given the constant sunshine, if the cost could be reduced or subsidised.»

Solar power initially became viable in the UK because it was heavily subsidised.

The installations are typically cheaper than solar PV panels, and are currently subsidised through the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) which allows solar thermal to have similar rates of return and payback periods as solar PV.

Thankfully the shale boom stifled such US fuel poverty that is seen throughout Europe and now Australia thanks to «unreliable» energy — wind and solar — subsidised at 110 — 400 % in order to compete with hydrocarbon based fuels.

Australia's power pricing and supply calamity has a single, proximate cause: massively subsidised, intermittent, unreliable wind and solar power.

Countries determined to subsidise expensive forms of greenery (cloudy Germany loves solar panels, for some reason) will be allowed to carry on.

How they got that way is no mystery to STT followers: Guilty: Subsidised Wind & Solar Drive Australia's Rocketing Retail Power Prices In fact, the culprits are so easy to identify -LSB-...]

Nevertheless, the Stanwell CEO had a spray against solar PV, the «heavily subsidised» renewable energy, and the carbon tax.

If the true and staggering cost of subsidised wind and solar power were public knowledge, there would be public outrage.

The EU's unilateral climate policy is absurd: first consumers are forced to pay ever increasing subsidies for costly wind and solar energy; secondly they are asked to subsidise nuclear energy too; then, thirdly, they are forced to pay increasingly uneconomic coal and gas plants to back up power needed by intermittent wind and solar energy; fourthly, consumers are additionally hit by multi-billion subsidies that become necessary to upgrade the national grids; fifthly, the cost of power is made even more expensive by adding a unilateral Emissions Trading Scheme.

[Encouragingly, since the first publication of this article, China has begun its journey out of the shade: China's Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Housing and Urban - Rural Development has launched a solar roofs programme to subsidise qualifying PV systems at 20 yuan (US$ 3) per watt, while some provinces, particularly Jiangsu, are poised to offer significant financial incentives to increase local capacity in PV manufacturing and deployment.]

For the EU, their heavily subsidised wind and solar power will always deliver intermittent and erratic supply at great cost.

Barnes, in Queensland solar rooftop installations are not only heavily subsidised, their (highly variable) surplus electricity is fed back into the grid at an extremely high price, guaranteed for 20 years or so, causing a number of grid problems.

The reverse in Queensland where roof - stop solar installation is heavily subsidised, flow - back electricity is bought by the utility at several times the cost of regular power, and the erraticness of the flow - back has imposed high costs on the distribution system.

The solar program subsidised by the federal government has an output of 1 to 1.5 kilowatts.

Right now ever increasing subsidised wind and solar connected to the grid is making grids uneconomic.

Wrecking a power market and a power grid is a piece of cake: just add massively subsidised, unreliable and intermittent wind and solar.

Of course, Mr K didn't envisage tsunamis of subsidised, leased - back solar panels.

A series of electricity industry reports has highlighted the inequity in existing power pricing where customers without solar panels are unfairly subsidising those with them.

You can wreck a first world economy in a heartbeat by relying on heavily subsidised and chaotically delivered wind and solar power.

However, picking winners (like passing favourable legislating and subsidising wind and solar in production for decades to multiples of their cost) distorts markets.

South Australia officially «the highest» with the highest penetration of highly subsidised unreliables — wind, solar....

Tim Ross, Senior Political Correspondent — The Telegraph — July 4, 2015 Customers face paying # 1.5 billion more through their bills to subsidise wind farms, solar panels and biomas plants The cost of subsidising new wind farms is spiralling out of control, government sources have privately warned.

It would be better to simply give 25,000 people # 25,000 each, every year, because then there would be no need to pay for the solar PV panels and no need to subsidise their pitiful output.

The country expects to use 10 % less electricity within a decade; all power stations are to be modernised; there's # 30bn for more renewables; railways will be further subsidised to lure people out of their cars and away from aeroplanes; plans for more wind turbines, photovoltaic electricity and biofuels will all be fast - forwarded; there is # 1,500 m to reduce CO2 in existing buildings; and the solar market is growing by 40 % a year.