Sentences with phrase «subsidy for renewable energy»

This week's Australian budget, with its withdrawal of subsidies for renewable energy, has left many commentators wondering if we've turned our back on carbon - neutral power.

Now subsidies for renewable energy are being abandoned, too, in sensible jurisdictions.

Compare that to IEA's estimate of $ 88 billion in subsidies for renewable energy in 2011.

The financial consultancy, based in London, estimated that around $ 45 billion or so was doled out in subsidies for renewable energy sources like wind and solar power in 2009, noting how this compares to the most recent International Energy Agency estimate of global subsidies propping up fossil fuels.

He has voted against having the EPA regulate greenhouse gases and voted no on subsidies for renewable energy as well voting to continue giving subsidies for oil and gas exploration.

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

U.S. federal subsidies for renewable energy, which includes biofuels as well as renewable electricity generation, has declined by 56 percent since 2013, dipping to $ 6.7 billion in 2016.

#ukip #grimsby When I asked what happens when subsidies for renewable energy run out I am insulted by Lib / Lab / Con / Grn pact but none answered

There's a good article in Slate which lays out a case for shuttling some of the funds spent on subsidies for renewable energy into R&D instead.

Schreiber also defended subsidies for renewable energy: «Fossil fuels are a mature technology while renewable energy is nascent and still developing.

Dominion is now going with the flow of anti-fossil-fuel regulations and sweetheart subsidies for renewable energy imposed by Washington.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- Democrats in the House of Representatives want to include provisions in pending energy legislation that would strip about $ 21 billion in tax subsidies from oil and gas companies and put them toward subsidies for renewable energy sources like wind and solar.

Despite all of the hype, hope, cheerleading, fuel standards, portfolio standards, and taxpayer subsidies for renewable energies like wind and -LSB-...]

* Subsidies for renewable energy provided by various state governments, some taken directly from taxes and others taken from electric customers via hidden taxes called «public benefit charges.»

He cites a recent public opinion poll sponsored by Greenpeace that found that, nationwide, 89 percent favor subsidies for renewable energy sources rather than for coal.

The current government has sharply curtailed subsidies for renewable energy and now relies more on market forces to determine the generation mix.

Study of the Effects on Employment of Public Aid to Renewable Energy Sources by Gabriel Calzada Álvarez, Raquel Merino Jara, Juan Ramón Rallo Julián, and José Ignacio García Bielsa In this paper, the authors examine Spain's efforts to create «green jobs» through subsidies for renewable energy.

The company also receives government subsidies for renewable energy and is seeking Clean Development Mechanism benefits.

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.»

The difference is obvious: the IPCC has declared CO2 emissions trading to be an effective instrument that makes subsidies for renewable energy unnecessary.

Something of a brouhaha is developing in the debate about the extent of subsidies for renewable energy in the UK.

The institute also opposes regulations on coal, advocates eliminating subsidies for renewable energy, and has fought against the EPA.

But one of Trump's potential picks for Energy Secretary, Oklahoma oil and gas drilling mogul Harold Hamm, has been a vocal opponent of subsidies for renewable energy.

EPI can be assumed to be an extension of what is known as the Checks & Balances Project (CB&P)-- which was founded to investigate organizations and policymakers that do not support government programs and subsidies for renewable energy.

Remove the subsidies for renewable energy.

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.

It can be assumed to be an extension of what is known as the Checks & Balances Project (CB&P)-- which was founded to investigate organizations and policymakers that do not support government programs and subsidies for renewable energy.

Zycher has previously argued that subsidies for renewable energy should be abandoned.

In recent months, a great deal of attention has focused on the costs of subsidies for renewable energy — so much so that the media campaign against «green energy taxes» on consumer bills has been held responsible for the government rowing back on some of its green agenda.