Sentences with phrase «through subsidies for renewables»

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.

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Last year, Congress in a show of bipartisan support agreed to extend the federal subsidies responsible for the renewable energy boom through the end of the decade.

FITs are subsidies for small - scale renewable electricity generation, paid for by ordinary households through their energy bills.

This means it covers the direct cost of low - carbon subsidies, energy efficiency and carbon taxes, as well as indirect costs due to strengthening grids, backing up intermittent renewables, compensating conventional generation for lost revenue through the capacity market and savings due to the merit - order effect, which pushes down wholesale electricity prices.

But if the main effort to cut emissions is through subsidies for chic renewables like wind and solar power, virtually no good will be achieved — at very high cost.

Savings from reduced consumer and producer subsidies can be used for large ‐ scale renewables, energy efficiency and public transport systems, and, in developing countries, toward the rural poor, through for instance cleaner cooking and lighting such as distributed renewables and clean cook stoves.

Grameen Shakti, for example, is a rural - based renewable energy company in Bangladesh that was able to provide loans to customers at preferential rates through loan subsidies provided by the Bangladesh Infrastructure Development Company.

Instead of trying to keep energy bills down (so that everyone can afford airconditioning or heating, according to need; and so that the economy can grow, bringing work and prosperity), we've driven them up artificially through carbon taxes and renewables subsidies for all those useless bat - chomping, bird - slicing eco-crucifixes destroying our countryside.

But anyone who argues for the support of renewable energy through subsidies has surely lost the right to complain about subsidies for nuclear.