Sentence examples for free emissions from inspiring English sources
Between 2013 and 2019, it allocated 673m free emissions allowances to coal-dependent countries whose GDP per capita was 50% below the EU average.
Those sectors would receive free emissions permits if they can show their costs are increasing and that they are significantly exposed to international competition.
Germany, for example, is making it easier to build new coal plants by granting them free emissions permits, even though it aims to reduce emissions to 40% below the 1990 level by 2020.
But a combination of rapid increases in wind and solar power, and governments' habit of handing out free emissions permits to favoured firms, has left European gas unable to compete with cheaper coal.
Emmanuel Panagiotakis, the president of the Greek public power corporation (GPPC), told MEPs last year that without access to free emissions allowances, Greek lignite production would be discredited, causing electricity costs to skyrocket and jeapordising energy security.
Mr. Hufbauer predicted that the Europeans would find a way to either increase the share of free emissions permits for this year from 85 percent to as high as 100 percent, or even to push back the deadline for airlines to pay.
"A continuation of free emission permits for Poland's coal-reliant energy system would be a grave mistake.
In the proposed legislation, Congress granted free emission allowances to coal-burning utilities to forestall the possibility of huge increases in electric bills.
"By allowing free emission allowances to maintain coal production from existing coal plants, while providing mandates that there be more wind and solar, you squeeze gas out in the middle," said William F. Whitsitt, an executive vice president at Devon Energy, a major natural gas producer.
There are several structural reasons for this, most prominently an over-allocation of free emission allowances.
Mode-hop free emission can be observed within a wide temperature range from 15 to 105 °C in CW mode.
