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Electric Car Prices Soar as Green Subsidies Come to an End

Matthew Fiala — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 15:02:24 +0000

In Britain, the price of some electric and hybrid vehicles will increase by thousands of pounds as one of the government’s green initiatives falls victim to budgetary cuts. The government announced last year that it would ban all new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2040 to reduce the rising levels of nitrogen oxide. […]

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Netherlands to Cut Renewable Energy Subsidies, Focus on Other Areas

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 20:57:46 +0000

The Netherlands, country of wind mills since its inception, will gradually cut subsidies for renewable energy. Instead, the government will from now on focus on saving energy and capturing carbon. Holland’s 2020 target was something pretty hard to achieve, anyway. However, the government just announced a week ago that it would increase subsidies for renewable […]

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Solar and Wind Don’t Need Subsidies, Says US Energy Secretary

Annika Tostengard — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:21:00 +0000

The Energy Secretary for the United States, Ernest Moniz, thinks that the costs of producing solar and wind energy have fallen so low that they would be competitive with oil and gas even without the subsidies they currently receive from the government. Moniz, who was trained as a nuclear physicist, explained to reporters that while the […]

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Solar Power Doesn’t Get Subsidized More Than Coal, Study Reports

Guest Contributor — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:36:37 +0000

Complaints that renewable solar energy has received special incentives advanced by the U.S. government different from its support for traditional energy sources may be unfounded, reports Reuters. The said report was derived from a solar-industry backed report. This was a published assessment by researching scientists from the University of Tennessee’s Baker Center for Public Policy […]

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