While oil and gas development has expanded, royalties collected from these companies have fallen. As the Canadian Center for Policy Alternativesreported in 2018, “In the last 10 years, as natural gas production in BC shot up 72 per cent, royalty revenues collected from fossil fuel companies wen...
When homeowners put solar panels on their roofs, the electricity they sell to the utility is often “net metered” (credited with the full retail value of electricity that this home would pay). This is a huge subsidy to the owners of the solar panels because ...
Four types of energy tax subsidy (ETS) policies including target planning, tax incentive, corporate subsidies, and consumer subsidies have been made to promote the development of renewable energy such as densified biomass fuel (DBF). Among them, the “13th Five-Year Plan for Biomass Energy ...
Subsidy of fuel cells for distributed power generation is identified to start at about 50% and decline. The commercialisation of fuel cell buses in developing countries will require support in buying down the incremental costs, and demonstration projects are being introduced with a positive outlook ...