{"id":79190,"date":"2018-05-31T08:22:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T15:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/europe-is-building-more-wind-and-solar-without-any-subsidies"},"modified":"2018-05-31T08:22:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T15:22:43","slug":"europe-is-building-more-wind-and-solar-without-any-subsidies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/europe-is-building-more-wind-and-solar-without-any-subsidies","title":{"rendered":"Europe is building more wind and solar \u2014 without any subsidies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/europe-is-building-more-wind-and-solar-without-any-subsidies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the United States, the energy market dynamics are quite different. There is less top-down pressure to deploy renewables in the US, and the main support comes in the form of tax credits on the back end rather than feed-in tariffs or other subsidies on the customer-facing side. These subsidies are applied across the industry and not through a competitive bidding process. As a result, there isn\u2019t as strong a push to get the industry off the incentives that are available.<\/p>\n<p>But one element of the American renewable energy experience is gaining ground in Europe, namely the use of power purchasing agreements (PPAs) with utilities to buy electricity at a fixed price for years at a time.<\/p>\n<p>PPAs are far less common in Europe than in the United States, but some of these new unsubsidized renewable energy projects are counting on them.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2018\/5\/30\/17408602\/solar-wind-energy-renewable-subsidy-europe\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2018\/5\/30\/17408602\/solar-wind-energy-ren...idy-europe<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the United States, the energy market dynamics are quite different. There is less top-down pressure to deploy renewables in the US, and the main support comes in the form of tax credits on the back end rather than feed-in tariffs or other subsidies on the customer-facing side. These subsidies are applied across the industry [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}