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Duprey and many others in the renewable-energy industry would prefer a feed-in tariff, which requires utilities to buy alternative electricity at above-market rates. Feed-in tariffs have already been used with considerable success in European countries like Spain and Germany, where renewable power has achieved greater penetration than in the U.S. But there seems to be little chance of that happening in Washington, in part because the nascent renewable-energy industry lacks lobbying might. "It's hard out there for us," says Duprey. "We're not as well organized as the coal or nuclear industry." Renewables like...
...generous government subsidies that helped support the rapid growth of alternatives in countries like Spain and Germany are being scaled back just as the technologies have taken off. At the moment, Germany has some 60% of the solar panels in the world, thanks in part to the so-called feed-in tariff, which guarantees that utility companies will buy renewably generated power at above market rates. But further growth could stall. Corn ethanol in the U.S. - which many environmentalists believe doesn't deserve the term "renewable" - has cratered, also hurt by rapidly falling gas prices. Most of all, however, clean...
Greenhill went on to play Yale's Hillary Morris in a tough 3-1 loss and was then defeated in the feed-in round by the Elis' Whitney Stewart in a frustrating match...
Clark lost her first-round match in a very close game to Belknap's twin sister, Mary Belknap from Princeton, 3-2, and then defeated Mary McGowan, Penn's number-one player, 3-0, in the feed-in consolation round before losing to Hope Mackay...
...doubles competition, Amy deLone and Cooper won the feed-in tournament of flight-1 doubles, and Minkus and Elmuts advanced to the finals of the feed-in tournament of flight-2 doubles...