Sentences with phrase «area of energy funding»

[Translate] One area of energy funding the House spared as it voted on its «minibus» budget bill was fossil fuel...

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2) On Energy Bulletin there was an article about Mondragon, a coopertive started in the poverty stricken area of Spain in the 1950 ′ s where people pooled their money and existing business expertise to fund local entrepreneural ventures with equity instead of debt.

The new fund is expected to invest about half of its money domestically in areas like health care, education and clean energy technologies.

Before joining Franklin Bissett, Mr. Riach was vice president of a Canadian mutual fund company, and for 10 years before that he held senior positions in the corporate finance area with a national energy firm and a major Canadian Bank.

Mr. Percoco, who had served as Mr. Cuomo's executive deputy secretary, is accused of soliciting and taking more than $ 315,000 in bribes from 2012 to 2016 from two companies: Competitive Power Ventures, an energy company that was seeking state approval to build a power plant in the Hudson Valley, and COR Development, a major developer in the Syracuse area that ended up with several large state - funded economic development projects.

The funding will therefore support research in the newly emerging area of inorganic graphene analogous, with the ultimate aim to revolutionise a wide range of technologies spanning from energy conversion, energy storage, photonics, large area electronics on unconventional substrates and geometries, electronic textile, sensors and spintronics.»

This week, the full House approved its first spending legislation of the year — a so - called «minibus» that packaged together four individual spending measures covering defense, energy, and other areas — while Senate appropriators unveiled and approved two bills funding NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the Departments of Commerce and Transportation.

Perry described himself as a fiscal conservative but a strong proponent of taxpayer - funded research in areas including energy efficiency and renewable energy that leads to the development of technology that strengthens the economy and improves quality of life.

Under this announcement, ARPA - E will fund energy technology projects that (1) translate scientific discoveries and cutting - edge inventions into technological innovations and (2) accelerate transformational technological advances in areas that industry is not likely to undertake independently because of high technical or financial risk.

At a constant level of funding, the restructured U.S. program will be able to focus on fusion's underlying scientific foundations and will enable the nation to take the lead in selected areas of expertise as part of the international effort to develop fusion energy.

Areas slated to get additional funding include renewable energy sources, energy efficiency, storage technologies, the «smart grid,» and integration of renewables into the existing system.

On the strength of these collaborations — and new findings in areas ranging from photosynthesis to stellar physics — the Department of Energy doubled down last year with $ 1 billion of additional funding for a more advanced X-ray laser in another segment of the old SLAC tunnel.

We got funding from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy and the Tufts Collaborates initiative to pursue this new area of research.»

In the case of metropolitan cities, urban counties, units of general local government, and insular areas receiving grants, the statement of projected use of funds shall consist of proposed housing energy efficiency activities.

-- In order to provide a broad and representative profile for use in designing a program which can become operational and effective nationwide, the Secretary shall carry out the demonstration program under this section with respect to dwelling units located in a wide variety of geographic areas and project types assisted by the various covered multifamily assistance programs and using a variety of energy efficiency and conservation and funding techniques to reflect differences in climate, types of dwelling units and technical and scientific methodologies, and financing options.

Funding: U.S. Department of Energy Office of Biological and Environmental Research through a Subsurface Biogeochemical Research Program Science Focus Area program at PNNL.

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) instrument is funded by NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy and by government agencies in France, Italy, Japan, and Sweden.

Energy is one of the main grant - giving areas because substantial Government funding's available to reduce our impact on the environment.

Funding is always welcome, but energy efficiency in particular, can be strongly driven by regulation and standards, and because good energy efficiency innovations have such rapid payback times, would regulatory approaches, or state - federal partnerships in regulation and incentives not accomplish a great deal of what can be done in this area?

-- Following record levels funding made available to the energy industry through the [stimulus package of spending], what are the clearly identified market failures that exist in this area that added funding will solve?

There are other proposals to use a very modest tweak in fuel taxes to boost basic research and development funding aimed at expanding nonpolluting energy options (nuclear, solar, storage, etc)-- an arena that has been unbelievably underfunded for decades (see graph at link) compared to other areas of scientific inquiry.

Nobody will complain if funds come their way, but given the state - by - state laboratories we already have of differing approaches to energy efficiency, the logic of spending in this area remains to be proven (as much as we all rightly love and value and benefit from energy efficiency).

As we add institutional investors, we will be talking to energy companies and sovereign wealth funds, and be establishing the specifics of the fundby the end of the year And you know, there are some areas, like geothermal or carbon capture and sequestration, that relate to the kind of skills — seismic understanding, drilling holes in a safe way — there are some things that you'd expect the existing energy industry to really explore and try to make those as economic as possible, so that they will be important participants.

The money is readily available to launch such an initiative in an area such as Chicago, both from government agencies which in recent years are investing more than $ 20 million annually in climate change education initiatives and from private foundations which as I detail in the Climate Shift report invested more than $ 360 million in climate change and energy initiatives, but only a little more than a $ 1 million of this funding went to direct support for media organizations or projects.

The US Department of Energy has awarded funding to the SC Office of Regulatory Staff (ORS) Energy Office (EO), to fund several high - impact demonstration projects in the areas of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and alternative Energy has awarded funding to the SC Office of Regulatory Staff (ORS) Energy Office (EO), to fund several high - impact demonstration projects in the areas of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and alternative Energy Office (EO), to fund several high - impact demonstration projects in the areas of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and alternative energy efficiency, renewable energy, and alternative energy, and alternative fuels.

Requires eligible partnerships to include: (1) at least one local agency eligible for funding under the Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 (PCTEA) for secondary education programs or an area career and technical education school or education service agency; (2) at least one post-secondary institution eligible for PCTEA funding; and (3) representatives of the community with experience in clean energy.

The U.S. Department of Energy announced $ 105.5 million in new funding on Tuesday to support innovative solar research in four core areas.

These local areas are where decisions like including bike lanes or funding public transport, or supporting tax incentives solar and other forms of renewable energy, are made, and why we need people engaged in our community.

Although concern with energy may not immediately be associated with the Fund's ongoing involvement in international monetary and fiscal - policy issues, it would be a mistake to view energy subsidies as extraneous to those traditional areas of responsibility.

Mr. Annan says that while the initial plan of the Programme, which included assessment studies of renewable energy potentials and initiatives to boost investment in the area, was quite ambitious, the number of projects actually funded did not meet early expectations.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory has issued a solicitation (DE-FOA-0000891) for up to $ 20 million in funding for projects that focus on the following three technical topic areas: (1) characterization of methane hydrate deposits; (2) response of methane hydrate reservoirs to induced environmental change; and... Read more →

For example to retrofit all buildings with PV and efficient appliances and EV changing capability could be facilitated by a combination of revolving loan funds from local revenue bonds providing loans to be repaid form the stream of saving from efficiency and renewable energy products.The measures needed will encompass the political, regulatory, technical, and financial areas.

In addition, while the oil and gas industry provides needed employment in low economic, rural and minority community areas and also finances significant percentages of state funds such as education, responsible resource extraction is vital as society moves toward greater conservation, energy efficiency and renewable energy.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change has made up to # 60 million of capital funding available to support the development of major offshore wind manufacturing facilities in assisted areas of England, while the Scottish Government has established a # 70 million pot for national renewable energy infrastructure proEnergy and Climate Change has made up to # 60 million of capital funding available to support the development of major offshore wind manufacturing facilities in assisted areas of England, while the Scottish Government has established a # 70 million pot for national renewable energy infrastructure proenergy infrastructure projects.

The amended law also clarifies how renewable energy projects will be financed by requiring the government to set up a special fund to be managed by the State Council for renewable energy research, financing of rural clean energy projects, building of independent power systems in remote areas and islands, and building of information networks to exploit renewable energy.

I received an MS in Ocean Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz a few years ago (in the area of marine nitrogen fluxes); at the time I was a recipient of an NSF Graduate Student Fellowship in microbiology — and I transferred into the Biochemistry department hoping to go into renewable energy research, which seemed to be very interesting, important and useful work — I was particularly interested in algal biochemistry (a great oil source) or fungal enzymes (for cellulose digestion)-- but when I took these proposals to the Dean of Graduate Studies, he shook his head and said «You will never be able to find funding for this kind of work — can't you do something else?»

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She has worked closely with Commonwealth and state government agencies on the development, implementation and regulation of carbon reduction and renewable energy schemes, including acting on large Government funding programs in the renewable energy and clean technology areas.

Neil Purslow, Chief Investment Officer of Therium, said: «Therium has seen a significant increase in funded cases in the last year, particularly in our focus areas involving financial institutions, industrials, energy and natural resources.

Main areas of work Debevoise & Plimpton LLP has three main areas of practice: corporate (including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, investment funds, insurance, banking, leveraged finance, business restructuring and workouts, asset management, capital markets, corporate governance, structured and project finance, aviation finance, healthcare and life sciences, intellectual property, media and telecommunications, real estate, energy and environmental law), litigation (including white collar / regulatory, international dispute resolution, intellectual property, general commercial litigation, cybersecurity and data privacy, insurance, securities, antitrust, employment, bankruptcy and products liability) and tax and employee benefits.

According to the Pew Charitable Fund, Montana's eastern neighbor currently leads in terms of job growth, especially in the areas of energy and construction, two sectors that are also doing well in other Western states, along with high - tech and engineering fields.

committed low levels of government expenditure on research and development in key areas like energy supply, juxtaposed with the rising importance of low - emissions energy technologies for Australia's mitigation effort, suggest that current funding levels do not reflect the priority required to meet the rapidly changing pattern of demand established by an emissions trading scheme.