Sentences with phrase «subsidy for renewables»

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.

This takes the form of subsidies for renewable generators and obligations on suppliers to take it.

This is one more example of how the administration is providing subsidies for renewable producers.

Both sides will recognize that a carbon tax, by leveling the competitive playing field, eliminates any need or support for subsidies for renewables.

Yet you can't talk about subsidies for renewables without also remembering that fossil fuels are subsidized too.

Even the lower figure is six times the total subsidies for renewables.

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.

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.

Therefore, considering nuclear's larger share of clean electricity generation, federal subsidies for renewable electricity averaged 94 times more than subsidies for nuclear.

The deal, long in the making after Entergy signaled it would shutter the FitzPatrick plant in 2017, comes after state regulators put the final approval on new subsidies for renewable fuels, including nuclear power, potentially worth millions of dollars.

• extending the compensation package for energy intensive users • freezing the Government's Carbon Price Floor mechanism • incentivising combined heat and power • exemptions from other subsidies for renewable electricity

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.

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

Furthermore, said Huhne: «Globally, subsidies for fossil fuels outstrip subsidies for renewables by a factor of five.»

Even more disingenuous is the claim that fossil fuel subsidies outstrip subsidies for the renewable sector by five (or twelve) times.

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.

Days after the Koch Industries hired The Nickles Group, Former Senator Nickels placed a Letter to the Editor in the New York Times calling for the end of «federal subsidies for renewables like the wind production tax credit.»

He also said tax credits and other subsidies for the renewable industry «distort» the market, but at the same time said the country should «encourage all facets of the energy industry,» including wind and solar.

It was therefore a sobering moment for the solar industry worldwide when the election of a conservative government in 2011 brought an abrupt halt to subsidies for renewables across the board.

#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

The government is set to unveil its long - awaited energy plan that would scrap subsidies for renewables and impose obligations on power companies to source a certain proportion of «reliable» supply.

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.

In Britain the Government has announced an end to some important subsidies for renewables.

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.

(UNDP) While some people argue that no subsidies are justified, others are promoting temporary subsidies for renewables.

If Europe's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) has had any impact on the continent's emissions, it has been too small to measure with any certainty against falling energy consumption during the recession and large direct subsidies for renewables.

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-...]

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.

Nonrenewable electricity sources may also impose costs on society from water use or pollution and may justify subsidies for some renewable alternatives.

In New York, the proposed subsidy for nuclear is half the existing subsidies for renewables.

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

[19] An internal Obama administration memorandum on subsidies for renewables recently noted that carbon dioxide emissions «would have to be valued at nearly $ 130 per ton for CO2 for the climate benefits to equal the subsidies.»

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

A quick comment: According to IMF (2013), fossil fuel subsidies summed up to $ 480bn in 2011, compared to IAE's estimates of subsidies for renewables in 2011, $ 88bn.

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.

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.

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.

«He calls for subsidies for renewables and that subsidies for fossil fuels should be cut.»

«They would look at the rule and say, «Well, 50 % of the resources in the market get the treatment where the market doesn't matter to them because their costs are covered either through subsidies for renewables or cost - of - service regulation,»» he said.

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

Subsidies for renewable fuel use or green building certification can further sweeten the deal.

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.

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.»