Sentences with phrase «by renewable energy policy»

Last year, carbon emissions were unchanged even as the global economy grew by 3 per cent compared with 2013, according to a report by Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), a think tank linked to the UN Environment Programme.

ExxonMobil expects wind power, solar power, and biofuels to supply about 2 percent of world energy by 2030, despite the fact that current calculations by the Renewable Energy Policy Network estimate that renewable energy already supplies roughly 4 percent of world power.

Not exact matches

«To ignore market trends by impeding progress toward a cleaner energy future, on the basis of ignorance or ideology, makes no sense,» Nathanael Greene, director of renewable policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in a statement.

«By getting active in communities, we can raise our voices to defend policies and regulations that will protect wild places and wildlife, reduce carbon emissions, build a modern energy economy based on investment in renewables, and, most crucially, ensure the United States remains fully committed to the vital goals set forth in the Paris Agreement on climate change.»

«By and large, with the exception of the Conservative platform, which doesn't have many details, the other four parties have... incorporated some degree of energy efficiency program,» says Tim Weis, director of renewable energy and energy efficiency policy with Pembina.

Although the final tax reform policy keeps the subsidies in place, some market analysts have grown concerned that these developments — as well as regulatory hurdles for new wind projects — will prohibit or slow the rate of deployment of renewable energy by utilities in the U.S.

In 2009, Department of the Interior (DOI) announced the final regulations for the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Renewable Energy Program, which was authorized by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct).

Other environmental policies include promoting smarter energy use through the ecoEnergy Initiative; a Chemical Management Plan to regulate chemicals harmful to human health and the environment; $ 1.5 billion over seven years for the production of renewable fuels; a commitment to ensure that 90 percent of Canadian electricity needs are generated through non-emitting sources by 2020; and additional government funding to acquire and preserve ecologically sensitive lands.

In the intervening years, the energy policy would give utilities an incentive to use power generated by nuclear plants, which are considered clean sources, though not renewable.

Those policies have been largely embraced by renewable energy advocates, but critics have focused on inconsistencies in Cuomo's energy moves particularly where politics has trumped policy.

The poll comes after a frenetic first five weeks of campaigning, as Ms. Nixon has attacked the governor in sharp and personal terms while rolling out some flashy progressive policy proposals, including calling for the legalization of recreational marijuana in New York, and for the state to use 100 percent renewable energy sources by 2050.

The 2005 Energy Policy Act mandates a minimum of 7.5 billion gallons of domestic renewable - fuel production, which will overwhelmingly be corn - based ethanol, by 2012.

According to Lester Brown, author of the 2003 book, Plan B (and three subsequent updates) and founder of the non-profit environmental think tank, Earth Policy Institute, the plan is based on replacing the fossil - fuel - based, automobile - centered, throwaway economy with a new economic model powered by abundant sources of renewable energy.

A massive fiscal 2018 federal spending bill unveiled by congressional leaders Wednesday night includes a provision urging the heads of EPA, the Energy Department and the Agriculture Department to adopt policies that «reflect the carbon - neutrality of forest bioenergy and recognize biomass as a renewable energy source.&Energy Department and the Agriculture Department to adopt policies that «reflect the carbon - neutrality of forest bioenergy and recognize biomass as a renewable energy source.&energy source.»

By contrast, federal policy on transmission is hogtied by regional conflicts over who pays for long - distance transmission lines for renewable energy, and local opposition to new lines and their skyscraping towerBy contrast, federal policy on transmission is hogtied by regional conflicts over who pays for long - distance transmission lines for renewable energy, and local opposition to new lines and their skyscraping towerby regional conflicts over who pays for long - distance transmission lines for renewable energy, and local opposition to new lines and their skyscraping towers.

The renewables milestone comes amid actions by the Trump administration to turn back federal climate policies intended to cut greenhouse gas emissions by embracing wind, solar and other renewable energy.

-- After reviewing the report required by subsection (a), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, in concurrence with the Secretary of Agriculture, may, by regulation and after public notice and comment, modify the non-Federal lands portion of the definition of «renewable biomass» in section 610 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 in order to advance the goals of increasing America's energy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollEnergy Regulatory Commission, in concurrence with the Secretary of Agriculture, may, by regulation and after public notice and comment, modify the non-Federal lands portion of the definition of «renewable biomass» in section 610 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 in order to advance the goals of increasing America's energy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollenergy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollution.

The study is part of the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge, a UCLA research initiative that aims to transition Los Angeles County through cutting - edge research, technologies, policies, and strategies to 100 percent renewable energy and 100 percent locally sourced water, while enhancing ecosystem and human health, by 2050.

A renewable portfolio standard is a state policy that requires electricity providers to obtain a minimum percentage of their power from renewable energy resources by a certain date.

The document doesn't take readers much beyond what is already well established: that without sustained and focused climate and energy policies by governments around the world, the potential of renewable energy technologies to compete with fossil fuels remains deeply limited.

It may be in doldrums, and Germany's emissions targets are certainly precarious right now, but it's not due to some failing in terms of renewable energy; it's partly due to the fact that they chose to make their task enormously harder by simultaneously ending nuclear power, and partly due to the fact that they were among the technical and policy pioneering nations, and consequently made more mistakes than those who came later.

He is wrong that A) we have to do so by all becoming small farmers, B) that if that were desirable we could do so easily, C) that economics is not science, D) that it doesn't help to use renewable energy instead of fossil fuels, E) that government policies are irrelevant, and most of all, that F) what he says is clear, but everybody is either too stupid and lazy to get it or is deliberately lying about it.

· Policies to reduce America's dependence on fossil fuels and promote renewable energy are favored by a majority of registered voters across party lines.

But it can unquestionably be helpful if the switch is accompanied by policies that promote energy efficiency and continued growth of renewables.

According to a study from the Blue - Green Alliance (a partnership between the Sierra Club and the United Steelworkers) and the Renewable Energy Policy Project, requiring that 20 % of our electricity come from renewable sources by 2020 would create 820,000 jobs across theRenewable Energy Policy Project, requiring that 20 % of our electricity come from renewable sources by 2020 would create 820,000 jobs across therenewable sources by 2020 would create 820,000 jobs across the country.

Therefore it has become urgent and compelling to develop policies so that in the coming years the emission of carbon dioxide and other highly polluting gases is reduced drastically, for instance by replacing fossil fuels and by developing renewable energy sources.

Following HB 589's passage, NCSEA and our partners worked in Fall 2017 and early 2018 with Duke Energy to co-design a program that would attract potential clean energy adopters waiting for the right time to install solar on their homes and businesses, a segment of the market that has been largely unsupported by consumer - friendly policies since the sunset of NC's Renewable Energy Investment Tax Credit at the end ofEnergy to co-design a program that would attract potential clean energy adopters waiting for the right time to install solar on their homes and businesses, a segment of the market that has been largely unsupported by consumer - friendly policies since the sunset of NC's Renewable Energy Investment Tax Credit at the end ofenergy adopters waiting for the right time to install solar on their homes and businesses, a segment of the market that has been largely unsupported by consumer - friendly policies since the sunset of NC's Renewable Energy Investment Tax Credit at the end ofEnergy Investment Tax Credit at the end of 2015.

Merkel's assessment that the renewable sector was not capable of filling the energy gap if Germany was entirely rid of nuclear power was directly in line with the coalition's newly unveiled «Energy Concept» — the ambitious energy policy with a 40 - year trajectory that called for, by 2050, greenhouse gas cuts of at least 80 %, increasing renewables to 80 % in electricity supply, and a 50 % reduction in primary energy consumption compared to 2008 lenergy gap if Germany was entirely rid of nuclear power was directly in line with the coalition's newly unveiled «Energy Concept» — the ambitious energy policy with a 40 - year trajectory that called for, by 2050, greenhouse gas cuts of at least 80 %, increasing renewables to 80 % in electricity supply, and a 50 % reduction in primary energy consumption compared to 2008 lEnergy Concept» — the ambitious energy policy with a 40 - year trajectory that called for, by 2050, greenhouse gas cuts of at least 80 %, increasing renewables to 80 % in electricity supply, and a 50 % reduction in primary energy consumption compared to 2008 lenergy policy with a 40 - year trajectory that called for, by 2050, greenhouse gas cuts of at least 80 %, increasing renewables to 80 % in electricity supply, and a 50 % reduction in primary energy consumption compared to 2008 lenergy consumption compared to 2008 levels.

Founded in 2009 by Dave Rauschkolb, Hands Across The Sand aims to steer America's energy policy away from its dependence on offshore drilling and call for a new energy plan, which incorporates clean and renewable sources, and encourages conservation.

Dec 8: «Renewable Energy Policies — Global Trends, China Leadership, and Security vs. Climate Rationales» by Eric Martinot, Tsinghua University.

(An article by Michael Liebrich of Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) earlier this year looked at the policy options for integrating higher amounts of renewables into electricity networks in a cost competitive way.)

In September 2010, the German government announced a new energy policy with the target of increasing the relative share of renewable energy in gross electrical generation to 35 % by 2020, 50 % by 2030, 65 % by 2040, and 80 % by 2050.

The pledges and determination shown by world governments at the Paris climate change talks in Paris meant there would likely be «further policies aimed at shifting the fuel - mix towards cleaner, lower - carbon fuels, with renewable energy, along with natural gas, the main beneficiary,» said Dale.

The lead statement to the IPCC press release announcing their renewables report stated «Close to 80 percent of the world's energy supply could be met by renewables by mid-century if backed by the right enabling policies a new report shows.»

Compared with the past twenty - five years, the way that the world meets its growing energy needs changes dramatically in the New Policies Scenario, with the lead now taken by natural gas, by the rapid rise of renewables and by energy efficiency.

# Post-modern sociology education devoid of any inconvenient economic, statistical or engineering experience so that policies of printing money and wealth distribution, «n promotion of inefficient, inter - mittant renewable energy, propped up by hockey - stick statistics, may be zealously advocated with at least 97 % confidence.

The statute, subsequently amended by AB 109, authorizes the Energy Commission to develop and deploy alternative and renewable fuels and advanced transportation technologies to help attain the state's climate change policies.

In Spain, every renewable energy job the government's climate alarmist policies created was offset by two jobs lost in other sectors of the economy that were punished by soaring electricity prices.

Yesterday, Andy Tobin of the state's regulator, the Corporation Commission, presented a plan that includes a goal to generate 80 % of Arizona's power from renewable sources by 2050, a commitment to review the existing Renewable Energy Standard and Tariff (REST) policy, to use renewables to mitigate peaks establishing a «Clean Peak» standard and to deploy 3,000 MW of energy storage to «leverage low priced energy during the darenewable sources by 2050, a commitment to review the existing Renewable Energy Standard and Tariff (REST) policy, to use renewables to mitigate peaks establishing a «Clean Peak» standard and to deploy 3,000 MW of energy storage to «leverage low priced energy during the daRenewable Energy Standard and Tariff (REST) policy, to use renewables to mitigate peaks establishing a «Clean Peak» standard and to deploy 3,000 MW of energy storage to «leverage low priced energy during the day&rEnergy Standard and Tariff (REST) policy, to use renewables to mitigate peaks establishing a «Clean Peak» standard and to deploy 3,000 MW of energy storage to «leverage low priced energy during the day&renergy storage to «leverage low priced energy during the day&renergy during the day».

However, generation from renewable energy sources continues to grow post-2030, ultimately accounting for 32 % of generation by 2040, compared to 27 % in the Base Policy case and 18 % in the Reference case.

As such, governments, environmental policy makers, and investors worldwide; have to play their respective roles to ensure that renewable energy technologies become less costly and more efficient, to supplement heavy usage of fossils, and to meet the future worlds» energy demand that is estimated to grow by more than 50 percent in the year 2020 by competent energy researchers.

When that inevitability comes about will California suffer the fate of Europe's crashing energy policies mainly caused by expanding the market penetration of renewable energy to a point where solar power became so cheap it was economically infeasible to produce it?

It's time decision makers in the Southeast move aggressively to maximize the growth of clean energy in our region by lining up the right policies, policies with great potential, so we can all benefit from what other regions have discovered: Promoting renewable energy creates good jobs, cleaner air, and lower electric costs.

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On repeated occasions documented below, organizations funded by Koch foundations have led the assault on climate science and scientists, «green jobs,» renewable energy and climate policy progress.

How fast renewable energy and the rest will spread depends on the policies adopted by the world's big emitters.

Her doctoral dissertation investigated the relations between the rise of renewable energy protectionist policies and the globalized industry by analyzing the behaviors of multinational corporations, the politics of a renewable energy trade dispute, and the changes in renewable energy policies.

The most recent confirmation comes in Climate consequences of low - carbon fuels: The United States Renewable Fuel Standard, an article by researchers at the University of Minnesota in the Oct. 2016 peer - reviewed journal Energy Policy.

At the end of May, the German government decided to take a turn in its energy policy: By 2022, nuclear power will be completely abandoned - which will inevitably lead to a greater reliance on renewable energy, not least wind power.

According to one count, Germany's energy policy (Energiewende) to increase renewables, wean off of nuclear power, and cut CO2 emissions by 2022 has added more than $ 134 billion to power bills for Germans so far.