Sentences with phrase «carbon efficiency requirements»
Governments should support energy planning for housing and transportation, energy and carbon efficiency requirements for buildings, vehicles and other manufactured products, and climate mitigation and adaptation in undeveloped countries.
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Dubbed by Licht as the «diamonds from the sky» project, their work boasts high efficiency in terms of its low requirement for electrical volts and more reliance on sunlight and heaps of carbon dioxide.
«The use of a solarized supercritical carbon - dioxide Brayton cycle would increase efficiencies, reduce space requirements and reduce costs associated with current large - scale concentrating solar power systems.»
Here's the keystone line from one of a series of papers on this energy gap by Hoffert et al (Science, 2002), John Holdren (pdf), and others: «Mid-century primary power requirements that are free of carbon dioxide emissions could be several times what we now derive from fossil fuels (~ 10 [to the 13th power] watts), even with improvements in energy efficiency.»
Building code and vehicle efficiency requirements must be improved and put on a path toward carbon neutrality.
There are reasons to worry about whether a carbon tax or cap - and - trade system would produce the emissions reductions we need quickly enough, and it is very plausible that additional measures like fuel taxes and efficiency requirements will be needed in addition.
(Sec. 213) Amends the EPCA to: (1) revise the definition of «energy conservation standard» to include energy efficiency for certain covered equipment, water efficiency for certain covered equipment, and both energy and water efficiency for certain equipment; (2) allow the adoption of consensus and alternative test procedures for purposes of the Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products Other Than Automobiles; (3) require the Secretary to prescribe a new test method for televisions; (4) expand the list of criteria for prescribing new or amended energy conservation standards, including requiring Energy Guide labels to include the carbon output of each covered product; (5) require manufacturers of covered products to submit annual reports and information to DOE regarding compliance, economic impact, annual shipments, facility energy and water use, and sales data that could support an assessment of the need for regional standards; and (6) require state and local building codes to use appliance efficiency requirements that are no less stringent than those set by federal standards.
Existing laws such as renewable portfolio standards, energy efficiency resource standards, long - term requirements for additional hydropower and wind power, and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions caps will require a significant reduction in natural gas - fired generation throughout New England.
In all three cases, the houses failed to meet both the energy efficiency and carbon emissions requirements — which in Ireland both stand at 60 % reductions compared to our 2005 building regu - lations.
As many Passive House Plus readersare aware, Part L1A of the building regulations deals with energy efficiency and renewable energy requirements for new dwellings and is the British government's key reference document guiding England and Wales towards meeting their 2020 carbon commitments.