Sentence examples for subsidies power from inspiring English sources

Competing promises by political parties during elections have resulted in bigger subsidies; power is provided for nothing in some rural areas.

Between 2006 and 2008, the wind energy market was driven by huge demand in Europe and the U.S.. Pumped up by the talk around climate change, clean energy and government subsidies, power utilities were looking for wind turbines to fulfill their large programs of investment.

Coal subsidies encourage power companies to use dirty methods of electricity generation.

Why not cap farm subsidies (a power the Westminster government possesses but does not exercise)?

Most Pakistanis want the coalition to survive in order to address pressing issues such as inflation, food subsidies, unemployment, power shortages and capital flight.

It cut subsidies for power and water last December, then sacked the minister responsible following a public outcry over how the new water tariffs were applied.

But a weatherbeaten oil man, looking up at one inactive turbine, remarked that the thing did little more than suck up government subsidies.Thanks to these subsidies, wind power did well in 2012.

With small landholdings, constrained markets for their products, and an overdependence on subsidies for power and fertilizer, India's farmers were ill equipped to compete when the national government undertook economic reforms in 1991.

Under the recently-introduced Energy Act and Electrical Market Review companies will be able to secure subsidies for power plants that need to be on standby when renewable energy sources cannot meet demand.

Particularly so given the widespread questioning within the coalition of green subsidies that power companies argue are a major factor behind recent rises in energy bills.

With respect to policy implications, Alexander et al. (2014b) note that the provision of establishment grants for DECs provides a cost effective GHG emissions abatement policy, and one which would be more effective in encouraging DEC uptake than providing higher subsidies to power generation companies.