可以获得GOP国会的可再生能源吗？

When the Republican Party took control of Congress after it gained a majority in the Senate in November’s midterm elections, coal stocks rallied. The leader, Bristol, Virginia–based Alpha Natural Resources, jumped 17 percent on November 5, though it subsequently fell 22.12 percent as of December 23. Does a favorable political climate for the coal sector strike a blow to可替代能源？不必要。共和党人，尤其是国家和地方各级的共和党人越来越多地支持太阳能和其他可再生能源，与他们的政治信仰一致。

“It’s not so simple as Democrats are for [renewable energy], and Republicans are against it,” says Shayle Kann, Boston-based director of GTM Research, the analysis, advisory and consulting division of Greentech Media, a research firm focused on the renewables industry. “There has been a pretty meaningful growth of conservative support for rooftop solar, especially. The idea is that customers should have the right to choose where their power comes from, and that there should be support of policy and regulations that favor the development of third-party-owned or customer-owned solar power.”

Kann points to the formation of grass roots groups advocating for solar energy on behalf of the GOP. In 2013 former Republican congressman Barry Goldwater Jr. became chairman of Tell Utilities Solar Won’t Be Killed (TUSK) in Arizona; TUSK has since expanded its activity into Colorado, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah and Wisconsin.

That same year the Atlanta Tea Party Patriots joined forces with the local chapter of the Sierra Club, a major environmental group, to form the Buford, Georgia–based Green Tea Coalition, which pushes for adoption of renewables, in part to challenge major utilities’ market power. Co-founder Debbie Dooley has said that she’s working with like-minded solar activists in Colorado, Florida, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia.

一种January 2014 survey by the Pew Research Center那a Washington-based think tank, indicates that U.S. popular support for government funding of alternative energy is high, even among Republicans. The survey revealed that 73 percent of Americans — including 58 percent of Republicans — want to see more federal backing of solar, wind and hydrogen power.

这款地道尔可能与清洁能源的不断变化的经济学和公众熟悉的替代来源有很大关系，这些来源是在能够进入权力组合的替代来源。2013年可再生能力以其最快的价格扩大，according to the Paris-based International Energy Agency。可再生能源占全球能源组合的近22％，而2007年为18％。IEA还发现，2013年新电力产能投资达到了2500亿美元。

Much of the increased uptake, particularly in solar, stems from lower pricing: Between the third quarter of 2009 and mid-2014, the cost of electricity generated from thin-film photovoltaic solar cells dropped from $225 per megawatt-hour to $149. In 2014 the average cost of a solar module was just 78 cents per megawatt, versus $79.42 in 1976.

但GTM的Kann指出，Rentoots对可再生能源的宣传尚未在国会方面处于明显。“部分地，这只是因为没有与联邦级别有关的政策辩论，”他说。“看到那些所做的最前沿的程度，以及基层支持是否实际上影响联邦政府，这将是有趣的。”

联邦辩论最相关的可再生能源enter on tax breaks and the question of their extension. The Tax Increase Prevention Act, sponsored by Michigan Republican Congressman Dave Camp, extended several renewable energy tax credits through the end of 2014. It passed the House and the Senate in early December with ample support on both sides of the aisle.

Gregg Benson, a New York–based attorney in the tax department of law firm Kaye Scholer, says the details of the Tax Increase Prevention Act can be interpreted as reassuring or less than heartening for renewable power: It’s a good sign the bill included the renewables-focused tax credits but somewhat disconcerting that they weren’t extended for another year.

该行业将密切关注大会对延长另一项减税的行动：业务能源投资税收抵免（ITC），为太阳能以及风力，生物量，地热电和其他清洁能源提供奖励。太阳能ITC在2016年底，将下降30％至永久性10％。

肯约翰逊，太阳能产业协会及前副职员副局长兼商务和商务委员会前任副职务主任，表示拉退税将损害太阳能行业，该泵约150亿美元into the U.S. economy each year, according to the Washington-based SEIA. His group will be boosting efforts to educate congressional Republicans and drum up support for alternative energy.

“We’re going to roll up our sleeves, we’re going to blanket Capitol Hill, and we’re going to let Republicans know what the investment tax credit has meant for America, and what it will mean going forward,” Johnson says.