I'd much rather see them subsidies than implement a carbon tax like Argentina, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Denmark, the European Union (27 countries), Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, the UK, and Ukraine have.
That Jackpot solar project in Idaho will operate at $21.75 per megawatt hour/2.2¢ per kilowatt hour, one of the most efficient in the country.
As long as they keep building solar and wind projects, we can fight the need for a carbon tax.
The new combined cycle gas plants cut emissions by half of your typical coal plant but a carbon tax would lessen the value of building those.
