David Victor Comments on Solar Companies' Growth in Marketplace
Solar power tax breaks set to expire
07/05/2011
Eve Troeh,
American Public Media, Marketplace
As Congress tightens up the federal budget, some federal subsidies for solar power are likely to disappear. That would hamper exponential growth in the industry.
ADRIENE HILL: The president of the electronics company Sharp, is looking to move more solar-panel production out of Japan.
He told the Wall Street Journal, the company's planning to follow demand. Here in the US the future of that demand is up in the air. Some federal incentives for renewable energy are set to expire by December.
From the Marketplace Sustainability Desk, Eve Troeh reports.
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David Victor is Director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation (ILAR). Looking across a wide array of issues from environment and energy to human rights, trade and security, the Laboratory explores when (and why) international laws actually work.
