The wide scale use of existing and — in particular — emerging innovative energy technologies can bring
big emissions savings to the sector.
But even if your circumstances differ somewhat from the norm, the suggestions in the 20/20/20 challenge are still likely to identify the key areas where you can find
the biggest emissions savings.
Not exact matches
The
bigger savings come in mitigated methane
emissions; around 100 Heartland - scale anaerobic digestion facilities can eliminate about 0.41 percent annually of the approximately seven billion tons of overall US greenhouse gas
emissions.
Ms Milne said the government last year rejected Greens» amendments requiring
big energy users to implement energy
savings which could reduce annual
emissions by 35 million tonnes.
Half New Zealand's
emissions come from agriculture and it is time the sector's leaders acknowledged there is a
big potential for
savings now instead of constantly claiming more time is needed for research.
The
biggest opportunity for
savings is the carbon dioxide
emissions standard for existing power plants (EPA's Clean Power Plan), as customer efficiency cuts the need for fossil fuel power plants and thus cuts their
emissions.
Nonetheless, Brazil's reduction in deforestation represents the single
biggest emissions cut in the past decade, amounting to 3.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide
emissions, equal to the
savings that would have been achieved by taking all cars off American roads for three years.
The pledge to introduce a new fund for industrial energy efficiency is a similarly
big deal, and while details on the level of funding are sketchy the potential for
big emissions and productivity
savings are obvious.
If companies are already saving
emissions moving from road to sail, then we can expect even
bigger savings in the years to come.
Today's announcement of backtracking on vehicle standards for model years 2022 - 2025 puts at risk tens of billions of dollars of fuel
savings for consumers and
big reductions in tailpipe
emissions.
That amounts to a dollar
savings of around $ 13,000... It's not the
big SUV, Lexus, or Mercedes that many agents drive, but in another two and a half years, it will probably pay for itself, and it helps reduce
emissions in the environment as well.