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January 4, 2013

A Late Christmas Gift For Renewables

Geoffrey Styles, Energy Outlook


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Renewable energy technologies have gained another year of generous support from US taxpayers.  What remains to be seen is whether this win represents a last hurrah for the current US approach to renewable energy subsidies as lawmakers focus on shrinking an increasingly unsustainable federal budget deficit.

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TAGGED: fiscal cliff, production tax credit, renewables

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