Sentences with phrase «subsidized renewables»

After all, nuclear energy is struggling against cheap natural gas and heavily subsidized renewables.

Because of broad European skepticism about fracking, there is no gas miracle in the EU, while the abundance of heavily subsidized renewables has caused overachievement of the CO2 target.

It would simply result in substituting much more expensive, unreliable, and heavily subsidized renewables for inexpensive, reliable fossil fuels.

The movement to renewables started slowly, but since 2010 about 80 percent of new electrical production has come from highly subsidized renewables, according to the Hass Energy Institute at the UC Berkeley Business School.

[W] ith the inability of the Connecticut House to pass a bill that would have allowed the state's only nuclear power plant, Millstone, to compete on equal footing with cheap natural gas and heavily subsidized renewables earlier this month, Connecticut is now in danger of losing its largest source of zero - carbon energy.

By taxing fossil fuels and subsidizing renewables, governments can tilt the playing field toward a brighter future.

Alberta's NDP government is also accelerating coal plant closures, subsidizing renewables, and taxing and regulating carbon dioxide.

The state is giving more time for energy and environmental interests to react to a multibillion dollar plan by the administration of Gov. Andrew Cuomo that would subsidize renewable energy and nuclear power.

The state is giving more time for energy and environmental interests to react to a multibillion dollar plan by the Cuomo administration that would subsidize renewable energy and nuclear power.

That said, I would personally argue that we need to keep subsidizing renewables regardless.

The tax was to be used to subsidize renewables until at least 2016.

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.

A lot more money, flowing from the political favors of tax - payer subsidized renewable energy into the pockets of billionaires, plus getting politicians to impose new environmental rules on fossil fuels and nuclear to make them wildly more expensive and billionaire renewable interests more competitive.

A key reason why the Democrats didn't put a price on carbon when they were in control of the Congress in 2009 and 2010 was that Obamacare was much more important to them as an issue to be spending their political capital on, plus they could spend money on subsidizing the renewables as part of their economic recovery program.

Capacity factors vary from grid to grid; so do available grid flexibility measures; so do public and political willingness to subsidize renewables.

The reason we favor pricing carbon is because it's a far cheaper way of reducing emissions than is subsidizing renewables.

Subsidizing Renewable Energy.

By contrast, New York state's Energy Research and Development Authority is subsidizing renewables projects — over a 20 - year period — to the tune of $ 23 per megawatt - hour.

Countries are spending countless billions of dollars annually on faulty to fraudulent IPCC climate models and studies that purport to link every adverse event or problem to manmade climate change; subsidized renewable energy programs that displace food crops and kill wildlife; adaptation and mitigation measures against future disasters that exist only in «scenarios» generated by the IPCC's GIGO computer models; and welfare, food stamp and energy assistance programs for the newly unemployed and impoverished.

European consumers have subsidized renewable energy by a «staggering» 600 billion euros since 2004.

The board rejected the facility by declining to certify permits required under state law... Critics of government - mandated and subsidized renewable - energy products were also -LSB-...]

$ 1.3 billion for 288 jobs: The failure of government - subsidized renewable energy: Another reason why government shouldn't pick winners and losers in the economy

If the rationale for subsidizing renewables and other clean energy sources is reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, then these policies are largely redundant.

The study has used data on the monthly output of wind farms in the UK and Denmark reported under regulatory arrangements and schemes for subsidizing renewable energy.

As this article explains, Australian government officials have pursued and implemented a politically correct embracement of subsidized renewable energy sources - primarily solar and wind.

As Business Green reports, analysis from the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has revealed that while the direct costs of subsidizing renewables and energy efficiency programs have added # 9 (around US$ 11 in post-Brexit Britain) per month to the average household energy bill in 2016.

It will reduce the disposable income of consumers, who will forever be forced to subsidize renewable resources (just as they must now subsidize corn ethanol producers)-- all in the name of» green energy».»

Is not this: «paying an industry to stop emitting so much with tax money» effectively what we do when we subsidize renewables?

Not exact matches

Fossil fuel - based energy production needs to stop getting subsidized, and we need massive investment in and adoption of renewable energy sources.

Instead of putting our efforts toward renewables and energy storage, we continue to subsidize our oil and gas industry.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed the new energy standard last year as a means of reducing the state's reliance on fossil fuels and focusing on renewable energies such as wind and solar as well as subsidize nuclear power.

They said subsidizing the nuke to keep it running would be a waste of money, and they criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to count nuclear power toward the goal of providing half the state's energy from renewable sources by 2030.

In the West it's been hard to sell the idea of renewable water supplies to farmers when groundwater, which needs to be pumped, is so heavily subsidized.

He pointed out that nuclear energy is excluded from the state's renewable portfolio standards and that wind energy is subsidized at more than double the rate Exelon was seeking.

The German Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) still encourages such usage until 2019, e.g. by subsidizing the generation of heat from wood energy with feed - in tariffs or by granting investment subsidies for heating installations such as wood pellet or wood chip heating systems.

Maryland is another champion of offshore wind, passing a law in 2013 that would subsidize offshore wind projects with up to $ 1.9 billion worth of renewable energy credits.

The surest way to achieve these goals would be for the United States to set a rising price on climate emissions, or create a «feed - in» electricity tariff that subsidizes an expansion of renewable power, as Germany and Canada's Ontario province have done, said Rooney.

-- Loans of allowances, or the proceeds from the sale of allowances, may be provided, interest on commercial loans may be subsidized at an interest rate as low as zero, and other credit support may be provided to support programs authorized to use SEED Account allowance value or any other renewable energy or energy efficiency purpose authorized or approved by the Federal Government.

That alone is reason enough to subsidize solar, wind, geothermal and other renewable resources until they reach the Holy Grail that is their destiny.

Hopefully, the Senate will disregard the idea of a Cap and Trade and either through the current tax / tariff / subsidizing systems or a scaled fossil carbon usage tax, directly fund renewable implementation or replacement.

What seems really dumb is that, faced with the overwhelming evidence of climate change, we would still be using taxpayer monies to subsidize oil and coal rather than renewable energy.

Certain subsidized and unsubsidized renewables projects can come in at low cost, and we should celebrate these and learn from their successes.

Wood burning is subsidized as renewable energy and also favored for use in dirty older coal plants that must meet new regulations on sulphur dioxide emissions.

The Obama Administration's anti-hydrocarbon ideology and «renewable» energy mythology continues to subsidize crony capitalists and the politicians they help keep in office — on the backs of American taxpayers, ratepayers and motorists.

Renewable technologies already exist (not hypothetically) that can produce electricity at rates that are competitive with the subsidized rates we pay for nuclear and fossil fuel generated electricity.

So there is no remaining rationale for government intervention in the energy markets to subsidize or encourage renewable energy, which is much better described as unreliable energy.

Because of renewable energy's subsidized production cost, wholesale electricity prices have dropped 60 percent since 2008.

-- Loans of allowances, or the proceeds from the sale of allowances, may be provided, interest on commercial loans may be subsidized at an interest rate as low as zero, and other credit support may be provided to support programs authorized to use SEED Account allowance value or any other renewable energy or energy efficiency purpose authorized or approved by the Federal Government.

It would also establish a Solar Energy Study Commission and phase out the use of Solar Renewable Energy Certificates, or SRECs, as a means of subsidizing solar in the state.

I agree that renewable energy is not up to the challenge of changing the infrastructure that was built with cheap and now heavily subsidized conventional oil.