Government urged to cut cash to green energy in order to reduce bills
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Clifford Armion
le 16/12/2013
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The government should act ruthlessly to cut subsidies paid to green energy producers in order to reduce household bills, a report has recommended.The Policy Exchange thinktank said renewable energy subsidies should be cut if the technologies fail to come down in cost under strict time limits. The report urges the government to hold the offshore wind industry to claims it can reduce its costs significantly by the end of the decade. Earlier this month ministers increased state help for offshore wind, with a strike price – or minimum price the government will pay – of £140/MWh for 2018/19, £5 higher than planned. But the Policy Exchange report argued that the offshore industry aimed to get its costs down to £100/MWh for projects beginning in 2020.
The report called for the government to speed up the introduction of auctions, instead of fixing predetermined minimum prices for renewable producers. The paper argues that for well-developed technologies, such as onshore wind farms, auctions in which different forms of renewable energy bid against each other for state support should be introduced as early as next year.
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"Government urged to cut cash to green energy in order to reduce bills", La Clé des Langues [en ligne], Lyon, ENS de LYON/DGESCO (ISSN 2107-7029), décembre 2013. Consulté le 20/04/2024. URL: https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/archives/archives-revue-de-presse/government-urged-to-cut-cash-to-green-energy-in-order-to-reduce-bills