RE: Hold on tight13 Dec 2020 04:54
Hi oldtramp.Cheers for the welcome.Although, personally i don't know whether the article is good for simec or not.I have no specific engineering, renewables development\financing experience and i don't know anybody who does to be able to form a sound judgement.
Good news Boris has presented again on the global renewables agenda re : job creation\growth
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-55288879
My personal view re: brexit, if we have wasted this much time brexiting.Let's go for it!
Fishing is not an issue.'State subsidies' wouldn't be subsidising a failing industry or undercuting other nation's\steel producers like China did with its steel dumping on the us market a few years ago.
China\Germany\Japan even South Korea have done very well since ww2 \(in the last 20-40 years for China) through 'subsidising' the right industries.South Korea's index have particularly had a stellar year this year.It takes time.. but anything worth doing does.Value, growth and new job creation isn't done overnight.
Silicon Valley venture capital has created so much wealth, which has 'subsidised' (and stopped bankruptcies) many successful venture capital projects, which have since been publicly listed for multiples of billions.That wealth has been re-invested.
So we need to promote high margin manufucturing like Germany does (can't yet be offshored to Chine - but give it time!) and our own 'Shoreditch Valley' etc....
So much money is going into renewables.It is a bet but spread your bets and you will surely come out with some gains if you give it time.Volatility is an investor's worst friend.
The added unfairness is that the EU can subsidise individual countries (ranging from small to large gdps - including France) still through the european central bank.They already do.I'm not judging either way.Germany benefits from being able to sell their high margin manufacturing products to EU countries with a lesser GDP like Hungary!
Fair much?A deal that May could have got a couple of years ago...... why not just stay in?