China has targeted procurement policies for clean energy, and a variable feed-in tariff for wind power.
Any change in tariff structure creates churn, especially in highly competitive markets, which most mobile markets are.
He's sometimes referred to as the father of the feed-in tariff that has helped wind and solar power succeed in Germany.
The feed in tariff is some 48 p per kWh: the more usual cost of a kWh of regular electricity is 10p.
They're guaranteed a price - a feed-in tariff - for their electricity when they sell it into the grid for 20 years.
Some fear the Malaysian stance could raise the prospect that other countries could seek delays in tariff cuts for their vulnerable industries.
The most energy-intensive consumers are shielded from the feed-in tariff, leaving ordinary folk, including pensioners and the unemployed, to foot the bill.
But shadow energy secretary Caroline Flint said the changes could amount to a 70% cut in the feed-in tariff (FIT) subsidy in just six months.
Aerial mapping and analysis shows that some of the best roofs to invest in to harness this feed-in tariff are on rooftops of inner city Angelenos.
Well, not if this group of companies in exactly that position succeed in their legal challenge to the government's entire review of the Feed-in Tariff.
When the federal government tried to speed up cuts in the feed-in tariff for solar power, several states put up a fight, forcing a partial retreat.
Former Labour minister Ben Bradshaw accused the government of "staggering arrogance" over the "feed-in tariff fiasco", and called for ministers to abandon the "costly and doomed legal case".
There's also the question of those who had already invested in solar schemes - in the reasonable expectation of benefiting from the Feed-in Tariff - before the government decided to change the rules.
Germany has become a leader in solar and wind through public-private financing mechanisms to finance energy innovation as well as strong demand side policies, such as the solar feed-in tariff policy adopted by the government in 1991.
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The nature of the cuts became clear this week with an announcement from the Greek Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change (YPEKA) that feed-in tariff rates would be reduced by 40 percent for those projects installed after February 1, 2013 and before January 31st, 2014.
Feed-in tariff subsidies, which enable people who install solar panels on their roofs to get rebates for the electricity they put back into the grid, were halved for people who had their panels installed after 12 December - a move which Labour says has "strangled" the solar panel industry.
In order to ensure the continuation of such staged reductions in rates of duty for originating goods of Chile in tariff categories that were modified to reflect amendments to the Convention, Presidential Proclamation 8771 made modifications to the HTS that I determined were necessary or appropriate to carry out the duty reductions proclaimed in Proclamation 7746.
Last winter, household bills soared as suppliers brought in inflation busting tariff increases in the face of surging wholesale prices.
In the Great Depression, nations engaged in a tariff war that prolonged the downturn and made it deeper.
In practice, however, Indian Railways has been tinkering with the distortion in the tariff structure by simplifying categories and classes.
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Despite healthy volume, average selling price continued to decline as the Euro weakened and Germany transitioned to a new, lower feed-in-tariff regime.
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Some importers use loopholes to place merchandise in lower tariff categories.
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Meanwhile, Korea agreed to cut its tariff on U.S. auto imports in half (from 8 percent to 4 percent), and fully eliminate the tariff in the fifth year.
The committee's other recommendations include a call for Mr Antoniw and Welsh ministers to "give further consideration to whether and how the costs of palliative care are included in the tariff".
If European countries decide, however, to cut solar power subsidies and make changes to feed-in-tariff (FiT) structure, this can negatively impact the sales and profits of First Solar and competitors like Suntech Power and SunPower.
This expansion and the valuations of the established Chinese makers was in part built on hopes that China would implement a German-style feed-in-tariff subsidy program, something China was talking about around the time of the Copenhagen climate meeting.
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The EU's gradual cut in its import tariff on bananas from Latin America, from 176 per tonne, to 114 in 2017 will make Latin American bananas more competitive.
At issue is whether a tax that can be avoided by producing locally is an import tariff in disguise.
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This month it has sought to douse the ardour with a sharp increase in the import tariff on gold.
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