The commission only attracts £10m a year of subsidies a year, but this could increase after a sale because new owners would be eligible to apply for conservation, management and tree-planting grants from government agencies including Natural England and the commission itself.
Controversially, Hinkley Point new nuclear plant is still in line for 35 years of subsidy.
She's dining with her out-of-town parents at a Manhattan restaurant where she's about to learn that, after two years of subsidy, they're cutting off the money.
"In particular, these figures reveal that the G20 countries are wasting trillions of dollars each year on subsidies for fossil fuel pollution," Stern said.
But undoing years of subsidies for traditional households is difficult.
The historical memory law provided four years of subsidies, helping Silva's group locate 5,400 bodies.
But now that her two years of subsidies have run out and the city's vouchers have stopped arriving, Ms. Rasheed, 43, faces eviction and finds herself on the brink of returning to a shelter.
Assisted by technological innovation and years of subsidies, the cost of wind and solar power has fallen sharply — so much so that the two industries say that they can sometimes deliver cleaner electricity at prices competitive with power made from fossil fuels.
Investors will need to stump up £850m for Swansea's lagoon; its developers want the government to promise 35 years of subsidies, probably at a rate much higher than has been offered to a proposed new nuclear power plant in Somerset.Those lofty sums explain why tidal firms are racing to test their designs at ever greater scale.
That is a claim we've heard many times since the 1970s - just a few more years of subsidies, and we'll be off.
In practice, other countries have undercut Thailand, whose exports have tumbled (by about 4m tonnes, or a third, in the first full year of the subsidy scheme).
