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The fossil fuel industries in most countries have an extremely complex set of tax breaks and subsidies of their own. So should solar also have that?
by jackmott 10y ago
The fossil fuel industries in most countries have an extremely complex set of tax breaks and subsidies of their own. So should solar also have that?
- jankotek 10y agoI do not want to go into this discussion, but I doubt school would get any subsidies for a coal plant. By other industries I meant everything (manufacturing, IT, agriculture...), not just electricity.
- ZeroGravitas 10y agoBut when evaluating whether to buy solar panels, they'd measure against the price of electricity sold by subsidiized coal plants, so thoses subsizidies would harm solar uptake. I'm not sure this applies in the UK though, despite swinging rightward there's a reasonable range of regulations that are basically putting coal out of business anyway.
- pjc50 10y agoIf you installed a coal CHP plant in a school, you would get a rates exemption for it: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/combined-heat-and-power-incentives https://www.gov.uk/guidance/combined-heat-and-power-incentiv... (even more crazy were the subsidies for renewable heat in Northern Ireland, which ended up bringing down the Stormont government: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-38307628 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-38307628 )