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...Then, in an ironic twist, House Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee said they reluctantly will oppose a ten-year, $40 billion package of energy tax breaks that includes tax credits for hybrid-fuel cars, residential solar systems and alternative fuels - because they were worried about the budget surplus...
...Energy funding. The U.S. government, he argues, could make American renewable-energy companies more competitive globally simply by treating them fairly in government-purchasing decisions. "The U.S. government is the biggest buyer of electricity in the world," he says, "and often at prices above what we can deliver with solar. All we are asking is that the government look at what it's paying, and anyplace where solar or other renewables are cost effective, use them...
...Bush Administration resists international action on climate change, governments and companies in Europe and Asia are positioning themselves to deal with the threat posed by emissions of greenhouse gases. British Petroleum, for example, is investing large sums in solar and other renewables and experimenting with carbon-trading schemes that offset emissions in one place with protection of forests that capture carbon. While such U.S.-based companies as General Motors and American Electric Power are also experimenting with carbon trading and clean fuels, they seem at the moment to be motivated more by the threat of boycotts by international environmental groups...
This is the path by which Japanese companies were able to win the lead in solar exports from U.S. competitors. As Astropower vice president Howard Wenger notes, the Japanese government's approach has been to "massively build up the domestic market through incentives to encourage industry to scale up and then, in phase two, take the show on the road and dominate the world." Japan is currently the largest market for solar in the world, and 75% of the 4 million devices sold so far are on rooftops, partly because of government incentives. The experience of selling mass quantities...
...Rocky Mountain Institute and a longtime cheerleader for clean energy, points out that in 1996 the California legislature discontinued a policy that encouraged alternatives and efficiency by allowing utilities to make money even if they sold less power (a policy that was reinstituted in April). Policies that allow solar and wind power to be sold to the grid during peak production periods--now in place in more than 30 states--also are encouraging use of renewables...