[toomuchtodo]

The money has to come from somewhere, and its either tax breaks or direct subsidies (ie. cash payments).

[walshemj]

No government has an infinite amount of cash and there are better things (NHS, Infrastructure, Sovereign Wealth funds) to spend it on rather than a vast tax break for high net worth individuals.

[toomuchtodo]

Distributed renewable generation is infrastructure. Also, the health costs from coal fired generation are enormous.