but aren't the subsidies there to help the business be more green?
rather than let it increase profitability?
(, Fri 9 Aug 2024, 16:58, Reply)
Possibly they are but don't rule out them also being provided just to keep things running.
Subsidies run ahead of any eventual profit or loss so profitability isn't guaranteed. Governments (and others) provide funds/credit on the basis that a return* will be made even in a bad** year but none of that is gauranteed. Along comes war, weather and other world events and the whole plan goes awry.
*return might be monetary or something like the provision of power/developments
**as bad as they modeled for not necessarily as bad as reality
(, Fri 9 Aug 2024, 17:19, Reply)