经贸专业英语报刊阅读教程 第一课 Good policy, a(5)

Mr Clover is concerned about the likely effect. “We're expecting a stampede in 2010. The danger is that you just bring forward demand. That's been a key feature of the US market. We've already seen several subsidy cycles—very high installations followed by complete cessations of activity. All anybody wants is long-term regulatory stability.” He hopes that will come with the imposition of a federal renewable portfolio standard on generators, which would require them to sell a certain proportion of renewable electricity as part of the mix.

Globally, New Energy Finance reckons that only $24 billion of green-stimulus money will be disbursed this year, with another $58 billion to follow in 2010 and a further $56 billion in 2011. So it looks as though the money will come too late to temper the recession of 2008-09, and may instead fuel another inflationary boom in a couple of years' time.