Comments on: Energy subsidies – Less is more https://energytransition.org/2014/02/energy-subsidies-less-is-more/ The Global Energiewende Mon, 17 Feb 2014 23:00:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 By: Another Week of Anthropocene Antics, February 16, 2014 – A Few Things Ill Considered https://energytransition.org/2014/02/energy-subsidies-less-is-more/#comment-4096 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 23:00:15 +0000 http://energytransition.boellblog.org/?p=5290#comment-4096 […] 2014/02/13: GET: Energy subsidies – Less is more […]

]]> By: photomofo https://energytransition.org/2014/02/energy-subsidies-less-is-more/#comment-4095 Sat, 15 Feb 2014 19:45:23 +0000 http://energytransition.boellblog.org/?p=5290#comment-4095 “With less ambitious reduction targets and/or the over-allocation of emission entitlements, certificate prices are at rock-bottom, so there is no incentive for energy-carriers to convert from traditional to renewable energies.”

Users have an incentive to convert to renewable energies and the incentive grows every year. There is no good reason to doubt a return to 7 GW/year installation rates for PV – And then 10, then 20 GW/year. If you imagine a 100% renewable Germany then this must be the case. Germany is merely in a temporary downturn as the market refocuses on its sustainable customer base – end users.

By all means… cut the subsidies to fossil fuels and nuclear power.

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