Getting Subsidies Right for Renewable Energy

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🗓️ 9 June 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Renewables are getting really cheap. But does that mean we need to get rid of all subsidies to support them? Many experts argue that we just need to retarget government support in a smarter way. In this week's show, we’ll explain how that might be done for both renewables and nuclear. Then, in a related conversation, we’ll ask whether nuclear needs to be included in state-level renewable energy mandates. We'll end with a look at a landmark agreement between the U.S. and India that could leverage $1 billion for off-grid solar and microgrid projects. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:35.0	From Green Tech Media, this is the Energy Gang,
0:41.0	a weekly digest on energy, clean tech and the environment.
0:45.0	I'm Stephen Lacy, welcome to the show. Renewables are getting really cheap.
0:55.0	But does that mean we need to get rid of all subsidies to support them?
0:59.0	Many experts are you know, we just need to re-target them. We'll explain how that might be done.
1:05.0	Then in a related conversation we'll ask whether nuclear needs to be included in state-level
1:09.9	renewable energy mandates and we end with a big agreement between the U.S. and
1:14.5	India that could leverage one billion dollars for off-grid solar projects in
1:18.2	that country. Catherine Hamilton is with me in Washington, DC. She is a partner with 38 North Solutions.
1:24.3	Hey, Catherine.
1:25.2	Hi, how are you doing?
1:26.5	I had the distinct pleasure last night
1:29.4	of being able to teach at the Clean Energy Leadership
1:31.6	Institute, which is a group of the smartest young people
1:34.6	you'd ever meet.
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