Ok, understood, I think. 

It's more a critique on doing this inefficiently through gov intervention, than a critique on the actual end result.

Thanks both.

south_korea_ln

What I took him to be reacting to is how these projects are being rushed onto faster schedules because of changes to the regulatory situation. 

That's real present resource consumption that is only happening because of fickle administrative priorities.

Undisciplined

I mean that changing the fiscal/tax rules of the game to jumpstart and then headwind and then rush to beat deadline for credits is a pretty bad way of "running" an industry

denlillaapan

 administration did these things and you let the industries develop on their own/own merit...

Not sure how that follows from what you quote and write before.

I'm probably missing some part of your logic, but the way I understand it is that tax breaks 

 contribute in kickstarting the whole renewables economy. We just now got to a point where it all became profitable, and the free market can take over and render subsidies obsolete. Without this early frenzy (China notably benefited a lot from producing solar panels cheaply and at scale, when Europe was subsidizing them, no?), I don't see what supports the quote above.

Politics_And_Law

econ

Wind Energy Is Booming Anyway (FT, Martha Muir)

> It's almost as if it were better if *no* administration did these things and you let the industries develop on their own/own merit...

Not sure how that follows from what you quote and write before.

I'm probably missing some part of your logic, but the way I understand it is that tax breaks _did_ contribute in kickstarting the whole renewables economy. We just now got to a point where it all became profitable, and the free market can take over and render subsidies obsolete. Without this early frenzy (China notably benefited a lot from producing solar panels cheaply and at scale, when Europe was subsidizing them, no?), I don't see what supports the quote above.